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WOMAN’S WORK 


TENNESSEE - 






CONTAINS 


A History of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs, Mountain 
Settlement Work, Civil Service Reform, Prison Reform, Civic Work, 
Home Economics, Rural Co-operation, Health Improvement, 
etc., also portraits and biographical sketches of women, 
prominent in educational, financial, commercial, club, 
social and philanthropic activities in the 
State of Tennessee 


COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY 


JONES-BRIGGS COMPANY ,/ 


MEMPHIS, TENN. 


^^UNDER THE AUSPICES 

TENNESSEE FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS 


DER THE AUSPICES 


1916 




COPYRIGHTED 1916 












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HE Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs takes special pride in the presentation of 
this work, and offers it as a tribute, not only to the State, but to generations yet 
unborn. 


It represents the faith of the Federation—its dreams in fulfillment. Successful, 
because it has been a work of the heart as well as the hand. As a consequence, in our 
mountains in the years to come, there will be no little children suffering as a result of ignor¬ 
ance; no girls or boys without being able to write their name, nor read it when it is written. 
Because of the work of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs, never again in Ten¬ 
nessee will there be pathetic women holding out wasted hands to the years as they pass— 
holding them out always, and always empty. 

Equal in every way with the history of the courage and greatness of the men of Tennes¬ 
see is that of its women. Greater, because of its character, is their work. In these pages 
we partially tell the story of the mountain cabins, into whose lives the women of the Ten¬ 
nessee Federation have brought the hope of religion and the blessings of health and hygiene. 
Into the darkened valleys they came, holding high the lighted torch of education, showing up 
ignorance and superstition hiding ’neath the garb of darkness. From log cabin homes, little 
barefoot covite girls and boys now climb the trail to the mountain schools, proud of the 
chance to learn—a chance for which generations yearned there in the heart of the Cumber- 
lands. Through the portals of these schools, the children of the covites may pass to the 
higher life of the universities, and thus into the professional world. 

We have given only actual facts in regard to the work. We trust that the following 
pages will prove full of interest to our readers, and feel sure that time spent in perusal will 
give a better idea of Federation work and achievement in Tennessee than could possibly 
come through any other channel. 


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Bebication 


QTfns Volume tooulb commemorate 
Cfje splenbtb toomen of our is>tate. 

Ss pioneers; of progress tbep, 

3n manp paths babe leb tfje toap. 

Sab thus; babe finest purpose gaineb, 
Snb fairest beigbtsi of bope attained 

3n eberp toortbp cause tbeir atb, 

?|as been alert anb unafratb. 

Slone—or tottb untteb force, 

GTbep follotoeb Sspiration’s course. 

Snb So ’ti^ mete, anb berp just, 

&o fjolb tbeir noble beebs in trust. 

“QLtytiv tnorfes bo praise tfjem in tbe gates/’ 
Wtyk ?|onor on Scbiebements toaits. 





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$lebge of 

^Tennessee Jfeberatton 
of 

Women’s Clubs 

“We pledge ourselves to use our united 
strength to make better homes, better schools, 
better surroundings, better scholarship, and 
better lives; to work together for civic health 
and civic righteousness; to preserve our herit¬ 
age—the forests, and the natural beauties of 
the land; to procure for our children an educa¬ 
tion which fits them for life—the training of 
the hand and the heart as well as the head; to 
protect the children not our own, who are de¬ 
prived of the birthright of natural childhood; 
to obtain right conditions and proper safe¬ 
guards for the women who toil.” 















& JUtrospectus; 


^^^ENNESSEE is ot peculiar topographical formation, and equally so geographically 
speaking. Her mountains are as walls that shut in the valleys—shut them off as com¬ 
pletely as the walls of a tomb. And because of the isolation, the revolutionists of 
North Carolina drifted over the hills and into those valleys. More of them came each 
year, yet they scarcely ever saw each other, families living alone, not knowing their neigh¬ 
bors two miles distant. 


The pioneers in the mountains came from sturdy stock, and were splendidly educated, 
but this was lost in the years between, and there came a time, not 50 years ago, when the 
people of the Smokies were wrapped in the superstition of ignorance and the darkness of 
illiteracy. Furthermore, they had grown so indifferent they made no effort to live under 
sanitary conditions. They lived, and still live, in coves in the mountains. At night they 
closed the entrance—there were no windows and as many as ten people would live in one of 
these 9 by 12 cove rooms. 

Then came the dawn, growth and progress of Women’s Cluhs. Among the questions 
agitated was one regarding the fact that in the published report of the United States Govern¬ 
ment, Tennessee was almost last in the states of illiterate standing. Investigation was made 
and it was found that the illiteracy was largely caused by the mountaineers — those who 
lived in that vast territory of the Smokies and Cumberlands—a section as large in area as 
the German Empire, as beautiful as Switzerland, and full of natural resources. The Clubs 
began mountain settlement work, East Tennessee Clubs being among the first to work, and 
work hard, and for unity of purpose the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs w r as formed. 
At their conventions this mountain settlement work w r as pushed to the front. Legislative 
measures were effective in passing compulsory educational law^s and other helpful measures. 
Traveling libraries came after the crude school houses, health and hygiene are taught by the 
Domestic Science teacher and the trained nurse. The torch of education was held high over 
the valleys, lighting up the gloom of ignorance, the darkness of superstition, sending hope 
into hopeless hearts and planting seeds of ambition that rapidly bore fruit. All this has been 
Woman’s Work in Tennessee, and this is only a part of her work — a part of what she 
has accomplished. The work of the women of other sections of the country is known in 
song and story— but little is heard of the splendid work of the women of Tennessee. It is 
to preserve their work for future generations that the Federation decided to put out this edi¬ 
tion—“WOMAN’S WORK IN TENNESSEE.” In this way we will place in the Hall of Fame 
the photographs and biographies of our women, where in future years their names will mean 
something more than family memories. 


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jftlrsi. <§eo. W, Bennep 

President Tennessee Federation of Women's Club 

Mrs. Denney is the youngest president the Tennessee Federation—in its twenty years’existence—has ever 
had. Elected at the Memphis convention, 1913, she has piloted the six thousand cluh women through a 
remarkably successful regime. 

Three conventions already bear testimony to her fairness as presiding officer—an expert parliamenta¬ 
rian. At Pulaski, May, 1914; at Morristown, May, 1915, and at Chattanooga, May, 1916. 

As an enthusiastic member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the Ameri¬ 
can Revolution, having held the presidency twice in the first, and State offices in the second—Mrs. Denney 
started her club career. As vice-president of the National Conservation Exposition of the Woman’s Depart¬ 
ment, she became widely known. A woman of rare tact and charm, with a fine mind and exceptional executive 
ability, Mrs. Denney has proved herself a born leader. Her creed is brief—but to the point—“practical Christian¬ 
ity,” and to this end she bends every effort to make the Tennessee Federation very much w'orth while. 

A month before she became president of the Federation, she was president of Ossoli Circle—Knoxville 
—the oldest Federated club in the south, and it was her idea, in fact, she made the motion that Ossoli pre¬ 
sent to the State Federation two measures; the first, a bill providing for an appropriation for a Vocational 
School for delinquent Girls; and the second, a bill to make women eligible to serve on school boards and on 
all governing boards of State institutions, where women and children were confined. As soon as the legis- 
ture convened, Mrs. Denney went to Nashville, and lobbied most untiringly for six w r eeks. It is club history 
that they both passed with phenomenal success. Those two bills have made Tennessee club women fam¬ 
ous, and it was most gratifying to them to have Mrs. Denney and the chairman of legislation placed on the 
Vocational School Board by Gov. Tom C. Rye. 

The Mountain Settlement work has been of the deepest interest to Mrs. Denney, and each year she goes 
into the mountains to visit the schools and herself learn the needs of the mountain people. 

Her term of office expires May, 1917, having been re-elected at Morristown. It is very fitting that the 
last convention to which she is eligible to preside, should be at Tullahoma, w'here her pet hobby—the 
Vocational School for Delinquent Girls—will be a reality. 

She has been an indefatigable worker, giving freely of herself, her time and her means; and, possibly, no 
woman in the state is better known or more sincerely admired and loved. The only regret is that the presi¬ 
dency of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs is limited. 


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VLl)t pioneer ®omen of QTennesisiee 

A Tribute and a Revery. 


Mrs. Francis J. Byrne. 


“ What will not woman, gentle icoman dare 
When strong affection stirs her spirit up ?” 



ROM the glaring noonday light of the present, with its rush from one pursuit to another, 
with its utter disregard for the finer courtesies of life, with its lust for wealth, with 
its disheartening strife for place, let us step back into the days of the pioneer women 
of Tennessee. 


Ah! Those women of a by-gone era, who led such different lives from ours—that we 
have absolutely almost nothing in common with them save our sex and our mother hearts, 
for women are still women, and mothers still love, thank God! whether they part their hair 
in the middle and comb it uncompromisingly into an unbecoming knot at the back, or 
whether they spend an increasing number of hours at the beauty shop in a vain endeavor 
to cheat Time of his toll. 


They lived such earnest lives—these pioneer women of Tennessee, filled with such unceas¬ 
ing toil, that we who fritter away so much time, keyed to the highest notch to keep up 
with the procession, really cannot conceive how their strength held out—so often through 
three score years and ten. 

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene, the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; 

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.” 

Full many a woman of talent superior to many of the so-called leaders of the present 
day is unknown to fame save when some prelty young girl goes rummaging amongst great¬ 
grandmother’s things for finery with the stamp of true aristocratic individuality. 

It is meet that we should weave a wreath of laurel to lay in sacred reverence at the feet 
of these women whose courage and whose affection have stimulated the world to move for¬ 
ward. 


Think of the fortitude required to bear and rear children among the discomforts, incident 
to the life of a pioneer, and then pause in awe at the fact of the wonderful mentality which 
these women transmitted to their sons in the brief respites from what appears to us, cease¬ 
less drudgery. 

Women in any age are usually martyrs to duty and most of them never reach the sine 
qua non of their heart’s desire. Longfellow says: 


“The life of a woman is full of woe, 

Toiling on and on and on, 

With breaking heart and tearful eyes, 

And silent lips, and in the soul 
The secret longings that arise, 

Which this world never satisfies 
Some more, some less, but on the whole 
Not one quite happy, no, not one.” 

But they were strong for there was much to suffer; they were brave for there was much 
to dare. 

And the pioneer woman at least could see results. They could estimate from year to 
year what they had accomplished, and it must have made the pulse beat high with pride, to 
realize that they had really helped their husbands in the battle with Nature. “The clanking 
loom and whirring spinning wheel” were proof sufficient that the women were helpmates for 
those toiling in the field and forest; and it was not long before they proved of service with the 
rifle when the home was threatened by savage foes. Clad in fabrics of their own handiwork, 
as the men were garbed in skins or the coarsest texture of the loom, their part in the mak¬ 
ing of a state was manifestly important. Some one has contended that history should be 
rewritten, so that women could be given the praise and glory they deserve in the develop¬ 
ment of civilization. The same suggestion applies with force to those who have assisted in 
taming the wilderness.” 

The pioneer women were the true helpmeets and if the men went out to represent them 
when it was necessary to cast a ballot, it was because they were too important a factor in 


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the home lite to be spared, for verily they looked well to the ways of their households, 
and ate not the bread of idleness. And in those early days, the family interests were so united 
that the husband really did represent the family opinion, and woman did her part because she 
was inspired by a lofty purpose, and not for any material gain or for the applause of the 
world. Did the reward of a satisfied conscience compensate them for the hardships which 
they endured ? The feeble hymn of praise which we raise in their honor today can not 
reach the ears, long since dulled to human sounds. 

“What worth is eulogy’s blandest breath 
When whispered in ears that are hushed in death.” 

The pioneer women had at least this advantage over many women of today, they reigned 
with an absolute and undisputed sway over their own households. Within their realm 
they were queens indeed, and when their toilworn hands were folded over their pulseless 
bosoms, they could carry with them to the other shore the conscious expectation of the 
greeting, “Well done thou good and faithful servant.” 

They were loved or not loved for their inherent traits of character—they were real peo¬ 
ple stripped of the various artificialities of the life of the present. They were beautiful or 
not, as God made them, and they taught their children the high moral law, and set before 
them an example of rectitude in deed as well as in word. They were kindly toward other 
human beings, realizing and understanding the brotherhood of man. 

Ah! the pioneer women of Tennessee, all honor to them. They had the opportunity to 
live their own lives and to be themselves, they “grew in grace and in favor with God and 
man,” because they gave their thought and their attention to the things that were elemental 
and essential. They held aloft the banner of civilization, and wherever they came, they 
brought the rose of charming companionship and gracious presence, but they cultivated the 
substantial virtues and they teach to us today the lesson that “Life is more than language, 
and that thought is more than speech.” Did they do as much for humanity, each working 
in her own little niche, as we do banded together in innumerable women’s clubs and rest¬ 
lessly going from one thing to the other? It seems to me that they did, and more. 

The women of the generations succeeding the pioneer women are the ones who were lax 
and not on the alert to catch the note of warning, for when the evils of an older civilization 
began to tinge the clear crystal of the early social life, they were not as brave in battling 
with these social problems as their pioneer mothers had been in overcoming physical diffi¬ 
culties. 

It seems a pity, where there are so many women whose names we do not know and who 
deserve mention equally with those whom history has handed down—to use any names at 
all. But the historian has so beautifully described a few of the “Mothers in Israel” that I 
shall quote from various historical articles with a view of bringing the great work of the 
pioneer women clearly to the reader’s attention. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says: 

“She cut a path through tangled underwood 

Of old traditions, out to broader ways— 

★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★ 

But, Oh! the thorns, before the crown of bays, 

The world gives lashes to its pioneers 

Until the goal is reached—then deafening cheers.” 

The tragic story of Mrs. James Brown, who, with one of her daughters, was taken by 
the Creeks and driven two hundred miles with feet blistered and bleeding, and remained in 
captivity seventeen months, did not keep other brave women from casting in their lot with 
the pioneers. 

Mrs. Sarah Buchanan is a fitting type of the pioneer woman. In Appleton’s Cyclopedia of 
American Biography she is referred to as having become celebrated as the greatest heroine 
of the west. Tennessee at that time being considered in the west, before the accession of the 
immense territory since added. Her bravery was displayed on many occasions, and the 
manner in which she assisted the men and cheered them on, in the attack on Fort Buchanan, 
serves to show the spirit that actuated the pioneer woman. In an attack on Zeigler’s sta¬ 
tion on June 26, 1792, the wife and six children of Capt. Joseph Wilson, besides eleven others, 
were captured and carried away by the Indians. Mrs. Wilson was a sister of Gen. James 
White, the founder of Knoxville. Gen. James Winchester and Col. Edward Douglass went in 
pursuit; but the Indians being too far ahead, and fearing that the captives would be slain 
if the Indians were pressed too hard, the pursuit was abandoned. A few days afterward 


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Fort Buchanan "s\as attacked by about 700 Indians. Sarah Buchanan and the other women 
\wth her, seizing the mens hats or caps would hold them in front of the vacant port holes 
for the purpose of deceiving the Indians as to the size of the garrison. When the bullets 
gave out, Sarah was ready with an apronful moulded from pewter plates and spoons. She 
cheered the defenders in every possible way and her efforts bore fruit in their finally win¬ 
ning the victory. 

Mary Bledsoe, wife of Col. Anthony Bledsoe, was another such woman. Col. Bledsoe 
and his brother, Englishmen, were among the first to emigrate to the valley' of the Holston. 
Col. Bledsoe, who was put in command of the militia, was often required to repel invasions. 
Mary Bledsoe would insist upon her husband being on the frontier, although well aware of 
the terrible risk of herself and children. She, as well as the other women of that time, ably’ 
assisted their husbands in defending their homes against murderous attacks. 

And what shall we say ot Catherine Sevier, affectionately’ known as “Bonny’ Kate,” the 
second wife ot Gen. John Sevier? She was the daughter of Samuel Sherrill, one of the lead¬ 
ing settlers on the Watauga river. When Fort Watauga was attacked she was cut off from 
escape, but dodging the Indians she managed to evade them, and was assisted to safety by 
John Sevier. Sevier at that time was married, but his wife dying in the early part of the year 
1780, leaving ten children, he married Kate some months afterwards. She became the mother 
of eight children. After her husband’s death she returned to a place called “The Dale.” One 
who visited her there describes her, although then in an advanced age as stately in carriage, 
with piercing blue eyes, raven locks, a Roman nose, and a mouth with unmistakable firmness. 
She ably assisted her husband, who had done more than any other man to mould the desti¬ 
nies of the state. While not versed in books, she possessed a good heart and winsome way’s, 
and no small share of the credit due to Sevier for his success in the upbuilding of the state 
and in the winning of battles, not one of which he ever lost, is to be attributed to “Bonnv 
Kate.” 

Mrs. Rachel Jackson, wife of Gen. Andrew Jackson, was not subjected to the strain, nor 
obliged to engage in the scenes that many another pioneer woman had to endure. After her 
marriage to Gen. Jackson she and her husband lived for many years in a log house of four 
rooms, about ten miles from Nashville. When the general had attained fame and fortune, 
he built the more pretentious and now historic home “The Hermitage.” Mrs. Jackson was a 
warm-hearted, frank and cheerful woman, quiet and even tempered, with no hankering after 
social position. She died a few weeks after her husband was elected to the high office of 
president of the United States. 

Mrs. William Blount, wife of Gov. Blount, who before her marriage was Mary’ Granger, 
was an accomplished lady’ and did much to refine the first inhabitants of Knoxville, where 
in the infancy’ of society’, after it became the seat of government, we meet with evidences of 
gentility and polish, refinement and etiquette hardly’ to be expected in a new community’. 
The governor and his wife lived in a log cabin. Dr. Ramsey', the historian, speaking of her, 
say's: “Under her administration a grace and charm were given to the society’ of the place, 
the more remarkable and attractive from the external circumstances under which they’ 
were from the necessity of the case exhibited in the new towns upon a distant frontier.” 

But it is to these pioneer women “en masse” that I would drink a toast in the crystal drops 
of the Tennessee Falls. May’ their example be not wasted, but ever be an inspiration to 
their daughters to the third and fourth generations. May their memory’ glow and burn with 
iridescent flashing of a diamond, spurring us to greater efforts, rousing us to higher aims. 
Thinking of their labors, their sorrows, their hopes and fears, we understand what the poet 
meant when he said: 


“Ever after mortal effort, ever after mortal pains. 
Something to which light is shadow, 

Something unexpressed remains; 

Ever after human question, ever after human quest, 
Something farther than the farthest. 

Something better than the best.” 


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Mrs. Mary Alveretta Giles Howard was born in Nashville and moved with her father and brother to 
Chattanooga, when quite a young girl. She received her education at Nashville in the public schools and 
Cumberland Female College at McMinnville. She has no children of her own and yet her interest in the 
children of others is a disputation of the oft repeated assertion of mothers that the childless woman “lacks 
the feeling of a mother.” Mrs. Howard has given many a child what many a woman has failed or neglected to 
give her own—of love, of light, of life. She has educated two children and has aided materially in the 
education of many others. She contributes liberally to the Mountain Settlement work and is an active 
worker for child welfare and for the uplift of the girls. She is interested in the social reform movement, the 
prison reform movement and believes these and all other good works will be served by the political reform 
that brings woman into equal privilege and equal responsibility with man. Besides her work for charity 
and uplift, she takes an active part in civic improvement of her city. She is president of Chattanooga 
Woman’s Club, and also president of Chattanooga’s Council of Women. Mrs. Howard is an active member of 
the Episcopal Church and for fifteen years has served the St. Paul’s Guild as its president. This is one of the 
largest church organizations in Chattanooga. She is vice-president of Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs. 
She is on Woman’s Board of Bonny Oaks, City and County Reform School, and is state chairman of General 
Federation Endowment Fund. Mrs. Howard is one of the useful women of her city, Chattanooga, and of the 
state of Tennessee. She has traveled extensively in the L nited States and abroad. 


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{Ktoentp J)ears of tf )t Tennessee Jfeberation 

Mrs. William Stewart Harkness. 

Recording Secretary Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs. 



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'HE history of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s 
Clubs is a record of achievement, resulting from organi¬ 
zation and co-operation. In reviewing the pages of its 
record one is impressed with the fact that many, many 
objects, for which the Federation labored in its earlier days, 
have been accomplished. Born in a day when women’s clubs 
were in an experimental stage, it has thrived and grown, and 
lived to see organized club women a great force for good, not 
only in community, town, city and state, but in the nation. 
From its small beginning, when a few earnest, interested club 
women met in Knoxville on February 14, 1896, and gave to 
Tennessee its Federation, it has grown into a strong organiza¬ 
tion of nearly one hundred and fifty clubs, numbering more 
than six thousand women, alert, active and anxious to either 
lead or assist in any movement that means betterment. Its 
work is carried on along many lines of endeavor. It has 
enlisted under its banner the women of the towns and the cities, and it is reaching out a 
welcoming hand to the women of the rural districts. Not that these women need the Federa¬ 
tion any more, or as much, as the Federation needs them, but it is with the idea that in num¬ 
bers there is power, in unity there lies strength. Those pioneer club women of Tennessee 
who gave the state its Federation budded better than they knew, for they have given Ten¬ 
nessee a magnificent organization of women united in a common cause for the betterment 
and uplift of humanity. Through the passing years has the Federation grown in power 
and in influence. 


Delegates from twenty women’s clubs of Tennessee assembled for the first time in Knox¬ 
ville at the call of Ossoli Circle on February 14, 1896, for the purpose of organizing a State 
Federation. It was with an earnest desire for service and a broader field for work that 
these women’s clubs of the state felt the need of unification. Federation would bring the 
women’s clubs into communication for acquaintance, helpfulness and quicker interest along 
all lines of growth, for through federation they could best learn to understand the needs and 
recognize the limitless opportunities for doing good. Through united effort the women 
could learn to develop their larger selves, their ideas, their visions. 

Mrs. C. J. McClung, president of Ossoli Circle, Knoxville, called the meeting to order and 
Mrs. J. M. Greer, president of the Nineteenth Century Club of Memphis, was elected chairman, 
with Mrs. Charles A. Perkins of Ossoli Circle as secretary. 

The following enrollment committee was appointed: Mrs. Thorndike, of the Woman’s 
club (literary) of Harriman; Mrs. Burger, of the Tuesday club, Maryville; Mrs. Allen, of 
Ossoli Circle, Knoxville. 

While the committee was preparing its report, five minute talks were given on the “Bea- 
sons for State Federation” by Mrs. W. D. Beard of the Ingleside Literary club, Memphis, and 
chairman of the state committee of correspondence for the General Federation of Women’s 
Clubs; Mrs. C. J. McClung of Ossoli Circle, Mrs. L. C. French of the W. E. & I. U., Knoxville; 
Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs; Mrs. Wat¬ 
kins of the Woman’s Club, Memphis; Mrs. John Williams of the W. E. & I. U., Knoxville; 
Mrs. Charles A. Perkins of Ossoli Circle, Knoxville. 

The following list shows the clubs that came to be charter members of Tennessee Feder¬ 
ation of Women’s Clubs, together with their presidents or delegates. 

Ossoli Circle, Knoxville, president, Mrs. C. J. McClung. 

W. E. & I. U., Knoxville, president, Mrs. John H. Frazee. 

King’s Daughters, Knoxville, president, Miss Pauline Woodruff. 

Woman’s Belief Corps, Knoxville, delegate, Mrs. Antoinette E. Patterson. 

Woman’s Club, Memphis, delegate, Mrs. J. C. Neeley, Jr. 

Nineteenth Century, Memphis, president, Mrs. J. M. Greer. 

Ingleside Literary Club, Memphis, delegate, Mrs. W. D. Beard. 

Woman’s Club, Chattanooga, president, Mrs. Jeanette Greve. 

Kosmos Club, Chattanooga, delegate, Mrs. J. G. Bichardson. 


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Magazine Club, Cleveland, delegate, Mrs. L. H. Day. 

Monday Club, Johnson City, president, Mrs. C. D. Friberg. 

Chilhowee Club, Maryville, president, Mrs. S. M. Boardman. 

Tuesday Club, Maryville, delegate, Mrs. Joseph Burger. 

Woman’s Literary, Harriman, delegates, Mrs. Thorndike, Mrs. H. C. Stevens 

Magazine Club, Pulaski, delegate, Mrs. Romine. 

Literary Club, Morristown, delegate, Miss Lula Cain. 

Woman’s Council, Memphis, delegate, Miss Clara Conway. 

Clara Conway Alumnae Association, Memphis, delegate, Miss Clara Conway. 

Barbara Blount Literary Society State University, president, Miss Nannie Moore. 

Soma Sal a Literary Society, Morristown, president, Mrs. W. L. Dickson. 

Mrs. Frazee of W. E. & I. U. made the motion that the sentiment of the body was favor¬ 
able to federation, and it was seconded by Mrs. Charles E. McTeer of Ossoli Circle, and car¬ 
ried unanimously. 

Mrs. C. E. McTeer, Knoxville; Mrs. J. H. Richardson, Chattanooga; Mrs. J. Wilks, Pulaski; 
Mrs. J. V. Kirkland, Nashville; Mrs. Grace Watkins, Memphis; and Mrs. L. C. French, Knox¬ 
ville, drafted the first constitution and by-laws of the State Federation. 

Mrs. W. D. Beard was unanimously elected president; Mrs. J. H. Richardson of Chatta¬ 
nooga was elected vice-president; Mrs. Charles A. Perkins, Knoxville, recording secretary; 
Mrs. Thorndike, Harriman, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Joseph Burger, Maryville, treas¬ 
urer; Mrs. Romine, Pulaski, auditor. 

This was the origination ot the organization known as the Tennessee Federation of 
Women’s Clubs. 

The officers ot the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs met in the Hotel Flanders, 
Knoxville, October 20, 1896, when the work of the Federation was discussed. Mrs. Lucy Cro- 
zier accepted the chairmanship of the department of education, left vacant by the resignation 
of Miss Clara Conway. An invitation to hold the next meeting with the Nineteenth Century 
Club of Memphis, the middle of February, 1897, was accepted. 

On February 2d and 3d, 1897, the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs held con¬ 
vention in Memphis with the Nineteenth Century Club. Mrs. R. C. Graves was president 
at that time, of the Nineteenth Century Club, and after introducing Mrs. W. D. Beard, state 
president, she gave a beautiful address of welcome. 

It was during this meeting that the Memphis Shakespearean Circle, composed of men 
and women, applied for and was admitted to membership in the State Federation. Mrs. 
Beard then announced that Judge Greer, president of the Shakespearean Circle, had the honor 
of being the first man on the official board of the State Federation. 

During this convention the club motto, “Unity of Purpose,” and the design for a feder¬ 
ation pin were chosen, the form of the badge or pin to be a circle, and the color green, the 
letters of the motto and the word “Tennessee” underneath to be in gold. 

As education has been from the beginning and is still one of the strongest departments 
of the Federation’s work, great stress was put upon the subject. 

The educational committee was: Mrs. L. C. French, Knoxville, chairman; Mrs. Clarence 
A. Benscoter, Chattanooga; Mrs. Keith Follett, Maryville; Mrs. B. F. Turner, Memphis; Mrs. 
Charles A. Perkins, Knoxville; Mrs. E. O. Thorndike, Harriman. 

Mrs. French reported that a letter on industrial training had been sent out to all the 
clubs to stimulate interest in that line. Industrial education was discussed, and several 
helpful papers along educational lines were read. 

Miss Crozier considered the subject, “The Young Woman of the State a Potential Fac¬ 
tor.” Mrs. B. F. Turner read a paper in reference to “The Moral Influences of Industrial 
Training.” Mrs. C. J. McClung considered the advantages which would arise from having 
industrial training. 

In her closing remarks, Mrs. Beard said that “harmony has been the key note of this con¬ 
vention. We thank you club women for the encouragement of your attendance and earnest 
attention to business. We take it as a practical endorsement of the Federation idea, and 
an earnest promise of the influence which will live in history.” 

The Nineteenth Century Club gave a reception in honor of the visiting delegates in the 
Peabody hotel on the night of February 3d, and this brought to a close the jfirst annual 
convention of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs. 

At the opening of the Woman’s Building at the Tennessee Centennial, a gavel was pre¬ 
sented to Mrs. Van Leer Kirkman, head of the woman’s department, by Mrs. W. D. Beard, 
president of the Tennessee Federation of-Wmen’s Clubs, with these words: “In Old Chil- 
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ot events, the trunk of this forest king became a diamond corner of the log house built by 
pioneers for the first capitol of Tennessee. A fragment of this diamond corner, shaped into a 
gavel, transformed into a thing of beauty, and a symbol of power in the hands of the presi¬ 
dent of the Woman’s Centennial Board, its call is absolute. In the close of the Nineteenth 
century the gavel is placed in contrast with the spinning wheel, and the loom of the old 
and beside the sewing machine and the cook stove of the new r era of life. The first echo of 
your gavel within this grand woman’s building makes a page in future history of womanly 
achievements, in architecture, in the arts and sciences, and in educational development 
along all lines far exceeding our dreams of possibility. In this palace beautiful woman has 
reached the heights of endeavor. The women of Tennessee, through each decade have been 
courageous, conservative and true. The unwritten history of Tennessee is replete with the 
memory of her lovely women, who, through grace and gentleness, have won the hearts of 
her gallant men. I am sure that history will repeat itself and that your rulings will exem¬ 
plify the honor of bringing you the allegiance of Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs.” 

Mrs. Kirkman gracefully responded, saying: “On behalf of the Woman’s Department I 
accept this beautiful gavel, with grateful thanks to the Tennessee Federation of Women’s 
Clubs. A gavel is a symbol of social order, and this one taken from the heart of oak, 
cradled in the mountains of Tennessee, might fittingly symbolize those stern qualities, Truth, 
Virtue and Patriotism, which can alone build and preserve states. Then let it be treasured 
and transmitted to future workers in woman’s cause until it becomes the brightest jewel in * 
the chaplet of memory which shall crown this centennial year.” 

The gavel was obtained through the courtesy of Mr. B. Rush Strong of Knoxville, who 
owned the property once used as the first capitol of Tennessee. He donated the wood, and 
Mr. William Epps of Knoxville took charge of the block of oak, and placed it in the hands 
of the artist, Mr. Harry Davidson of Knoxville, who deftly entwined the laurel of the East 
Tennessee mountains and the hickory of Jackson’s home in artistic carving. The gold plate 
on which was engraved Mrs. Kirkman’s name and the date of the occasion, was furnished 
by Hope Brothers, Knoxville. 

Chattanooga entertained the next convention of Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs 
on February 2d, 3d and 4th, 1898. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. Beard and the 
address of welcome was given by Mrs. Laura D. Eakin, president of the Woman’s Club. The 
club reports were very encouraging and showed the gradual growth of the organization. A 
delightful reception was tendered at the residence of Mrs. D. M. Stewart of the Woman’s 
Club. This hospitality was extended by Kosmos and the Woman’s Club, at whose invitation 
the federation met in that city. 

During the second day’s meeting Mrs. Clarence Selden, president of the Nineteenth Cen¬ 
tury Club, Memphis, presented the draft of a bill on behalf of that club, which had for its 
object the eligibility of women to school boards in the state of Tennessee. Mrs. C. A. 
Perkins moved “that it be the sense of the convention that we endorse this bill, and ask the 
different clubs to use their influence in securing its passage through the legislature of this 
state. It carried without discussion. A bill in regard to compulsory education, having the 
endorsement of the Federated Clubs of Knoxville, was presented by the recording secretary, 
Mrs. Perkins. The Federation also approved this bill. 

Mrs. Walker Kennedy of the Nineteenth Century Club read a paper entitled, “What is 
the New Movement in Education?” which not only did great credit to its author, hul 
reflected much honor upon her club and the State Federation. 

The following officers were elected: 

President, Mrs. W. D. Beard, Memphis. 

Vice-President, Mrs. Chas. M. Greve, Chattanooga. 

Recording Secretary, Mrs. Lincoln Amhurst, Johnson City. 

Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Jonathan Tipton, Knoxville. 

Treasurer, Mrs. W. S. Dickson, Morristown. 

Auditor, Miss Leah S. Fletcher, Cleveland. 

Mrs. P. C. Wilson of the Woman’s Club entertained the delegates and visitors at her 
home with a Japanese lunch. The hostess not only exhibited many curios horn Japan 
and China, but served a luncheon of Chinese and Japanese food which was partaken of with 
chop sticks. 

The third convention of the Tennesse Federation of Women’s Clubs was held in Mary¬ 
ville, April 12th, 13th and 14th, 1899, at the invitation of Chilhowee and Tuesday clubs. Miss 
Margerite E. Henry gave a most cordial address of welcome to which Mrs. Beaid wittingly 
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At this meeting Prof. Charles Turner of the University of Tennessee gave a very profita¬ 
ble talk on Present Laws on Our Statute Books Concerning Education in Tennessee.” A 
delightful musical in charge of Mrs. John Lamar Meek of Knoxville was given in the Pres¬ 
byterian church, where more than a thousand people enjoyed the classical programme given 
by the following Tennessee musicians: Mrs. Meek, Misses Noa, Krutzsch, Fanz, McDonald, 
Mr. Nelson, Mr. Flenniken and Mr. Alford. 

Miss Kate R. Ogden was chairman of the committee on traveling libraries, and the Fed¬ 
eration was doing a great work along this line at that time with its fourteen traveling 
libraries: 

Number 1 donated by Ossoli Circle, Knoxville, and Number 7 also. 

Number 2 donated by W. E. & I. U., Knoxville. 

Number 3 donated by Kosmos club, Chattanooga. 

Number 4 donated by Woman’s club, Chattanooga. 

Number 5 donated by Peabody Normal, Nashville, and Number 6 also. 

Number 8 donated by Chilhowee club, Maryville, also Numbers 12, 13, 14. 

Number 9 donated by Twentieth Century club, Memphis. 

Number 10 donated by Woman’s club, Memphis. 

Number 11 donated by Womans’ club, Memphis. 

The W. E. & I. U. club of Knoxville established a free kindergarten, and was doing great 
good with same in the cotton mill district of that city. 

Columbia University offered a free $600 scholarship to the Tennessee Federation of 
Women’s Clubs, in their teachers’ college for a native Tennessee woman if the Federation 
would raise half the amount. The amount was raised by subscriptions from the clubs of the 
state. Ossoli Circle, Knoxville, subscribed $200, and Kosmos of Chattanooga $30. The 
offer of this free scholarship was published in all the leading newspapers of the state, and 
each individual club was asked to use its influence in securing the scholarship. 

The fourth annual convention was held in Memphis April 18, 1900. Rev. H. Neel wel¬ 
comed delegates in behalf of the clubs of the city and brought out beautifully the co-relation 
of the church and club through earnest labor for the uplifting and betterment of humanity. 

Much work had been accomplished since the Federation’s first meeting in Memphis three 
years previous, especially in the fostering of education. Mainly through the combined 
efforts of the women’s clubs, a compulsory education bill was before the legislature at that 
time. Reports from the various departments showed growth along every line of work. 

Mrs. R. E. Mountcastle of Morristown read a paper on “Civics,” and Miss Mary Boyce 
Temple of Knoxville also read a paper on “Household Economics.” 

Judge Greer tendered a delightful boat excursion on the Mississippi for the enjoyment 
of the delegates and guests. 

The following officers were elected: 

President, Mrs. C. A. Perkins, Knoxville. 

Vice-President, Mrs. Kellar Anderson, Memphis. 

Recording Secretary, Miss Margerite Henry, Maryville. 

Corresponding Secretary, Miss Laura Thornburgh, Knoxville. 

Treasurer, Mrs. R. Ess Salzkotter, Nashville. 

Auditor, Mrs. A. H. Young, Ripley. 

General Federation Secretary, Mrs. James L. Minor, Memphis. 

The fifth annual convention of Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs was held in 
Harriman, April 24th, 25th and 26th, 1901, in response to the invitation of the Woman’s club 
of that city. 

Mrs. C. A. Perkins, president of the Federation, presided. Rev. J. B. McPhee opened the 
session with prayer and also spoke a few words of welcome and encouragement. 

Mrs. M. L. Dame, president of the Hostess club delivered the welcome address in a very 
gracious manner, and Mrs. Perkins responded with an address that led her listeners in rapid 
survey from the time when women knew so little of women’s world down to their present 
activities along all lines of Federation work. Every club in the Federation was represented 
in this meeting, either through a delegate or a written report. Memories of the Milwaukee 
Biennial” by Mrs. C. R. Greer of Knoxville was a bright resume that brought the Federation 
in touch with the themes, aims and spirit of the biennial sessions. The Tennessee Federation 
of Women’s Clubs was well represented in Milwaukee as eight ladies from Tennessee were 
privileged to attend the biennial. Tennessee Federation had joined the General Federation 
immediately after organization in 1896. 

Traveling libraries now under control of the Federation numbered thirty-four,^ and 
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an impoitant feature in many ot the clubs. An industrial exhibit was held in the clubrooms of 
the \\ oman s club of Harriman, and was most successful in the beauty, utility and variety of 
its exhibits, as well as in sales. 

Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the Consumers’ League of New York City, spoke on 
The Morals ot Shopping.” The work of this league was brought before the Federation 
to impress upon its members their obligations to inform themselves as to conditions under 
which clothing and food were prepared and at what fearful cost to the life and health of 
the wage-earner. So much interest was shown in this address that the Federation not only 
asked the president, Mrs. Perkins, to appoint a committee of one on Consumers League work, 
but requested that she ask each club to set aside one club day during the next year for the 
consideration of Consumers League work. 

A paper on “Our Feathered Songsters” by Mrs. W. H. Richards was of such interest 
that it was made a reciprocity paper. Mrs. A. M. Harrison, president of Kentucky Federa¬ 
tion of Women’s Clubs, read a paper on “Fiction in Philanthropy” and brought to notice the 
influence of fiction in molding public sentiment, and righting the wrongs of the world. A 
paper “Needed Reforms in Advertising,” by Mrs. Charles H. Greve, of Chattanooga, was very 
helpful and was sent to the reciprocity bureau. 

The musical numbers by Harriman musicians added much to the enjoyment of the 
guests, and the social meetings were thoroughly enjoyed. 

The “Southern Woman’s” magazine, the official organ of the Georgia Federation of Wom¬ 
en’s Clubs, was also made the club organ of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs. 
An illustrated address given by Dr. Charles W. Dabney, president of the University of Ten¬ 
nessee, on “Paris and the Exposition,” was one of the most interesting events of the closing 
session of the convention. 

The sixth annual convention was held in the Woman’s building of Knoxville on April 
16th, 17th and 18th, 1902, by invitation of Ossoli Circle. Mrs. C. A. Perkins, president of 
the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs, presided. The mayor of Knoxville, Hon. 
Joseph T. McTeer, being absent, the welcome address was graciously given by Mr. William 
B. Lockett, president of the Knoxville chamber of commerce. He spoke of what Knoxville 
owed to its earnest, progressive women. He called to mind their club work, their charitable 
organizations, their part in the erection of the city’s new hospital, their enterprise in bringing 
the beautiful Woman’s building to Knoxville from the Tennessee Centennial Exposition at 
Nashville to be the center of their social, literary and philanthropic benefactions. Mrs. 
Lewis Tilman, president of Ossoli Circle, welcomed the delegates in behalf of the club women 
of the city. Dr. Charles Dabney, president of the University of Tennessee, welcomed them in 
behalf of the educational interests of the state, mentioning what they had already accom¬ 
plished, as a state federation in reference to the compulsory educational bill, and urging that 
the Federation cast its influence more and more along educational lines. In Mrs. Perkins’ 
response her earnest words of encouragement struck the key note of inspiration in the open¬ 
ing session of the Federation. 

Mrs. Frank Wentworth, on behalf of the Woman’s club of Chattanooga, presented Mrs. 
Perkins a gavel of wood from Lookout Mountain. Mrs. A. M. Harrison addressed the con¬ 
vention on “The Club Woman’s Duty to Her Town.” She also told of work the Kentucky 
clubs had taken up among the people of their mountain borders, and her words inspired a 
few clubs to undertake a similar work in the mountains of Tennessee. A delightful musi¬ 
cal was a pleasing feature of this session, in charge of the Tuesday Morning Music Club, 
Mrs. Florence K. Payne, chairman. 

An exhibit of woman’s work prepared by the industrial committee was held in con¬ 
nection with the convention. Dairy products, garden vegetables, homespun counterpanes 
and coverlets, handsome rugs, exquisite embroideries and laces, hand-painted china, in fact, 
all that the brain could devise and the hand execute, were exhibited, proving beyond a doubt 
that the club woman of that day looked well to the ways of her household, even though she 
wielded her pen and lifted her voice and lent her influence to make this old world better as 
she passed through it. 

The traveling library committee reported fifty traveling libraries, twenty-two having 
been added the club year. The Tennessee Federation endorsed the bill pending before congress, 
creating the Appalachian Forest Reserve. A very delightful evening ot ielaxation and pleas¬ 
ure was enjoyed by all the club women at the reception tendered them in the Woman’s 
building. 

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President, Mrs. Charles A. Perkins, Knoxville. 

First Vice-President, Mrs. Kellar Anderson, Memphis. 

Second Vice-President, Mrs. Rebecca Wilson, Chattanooga. 

Third Vice-President, Mrs. W. P. Harris, Johnson City. 

Recording Secretary, Miss Ella Ranson, Tullahoma. 

Corresponding Secretary, Miss Laura E. Thornburgh, Knoxville. 

Auditor, Mrs. A. H. Young, Ripley. 

General Federation Secretary, Mrs. James L. Minor, Memphis. 

At the close ot this session the delegates visited the University of Tennessee. A Mt. 
Vernon souvenir tree, the gift of Mrs. T. S. Webb of Knoxville, was planted on the grounds 
of Barbara Blount Hall. Mrs. Searle of Knoxville told “The Story of the Tree.” A poem 
“Ihe Iree Song,” written tor the occasion by Miss Laura Thornburgh, was read by its 
author. After these exercises a reception was given in the parlors of Barbara Blount Hall. 

An art exhibition under the care of the Nicholson Art League in the studio at the 
Woman’s Building, was opened to all the visiting delegates to all the sessions of the 
Federation. 

Mrs. A. O. Granger, president of the Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs, delivered an 
address on the “Modern Country School” that was very inspiring and helpful. 

The seventh annual convention of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs met in 
Johnson City, May 6th, 7th and 8th, 1903, at the invitation of the Monday Club. Addresses 
of welcome were delivered by Hon. J. U. Chuinbley, mayor of Johnson City, and Mrs. W. P. 
Harris, president of the Monday Club. Among the delightful lectures given during the meet¬ 
ing was the one by E. G. Routzahn of Chicago, illustrated with stereopticon views, on the 
subject “A Great Civic Awakening.” Mrs. C. A. Perkins, state president, vividly brought 
before the convention many points of interest and beauty in a lecture, “From San Diego to 
Sitka,” with stereopticon views. 

Many delightful social attentions were enjoyed, also a glorious ride through the heart of 
the mountains, after which a reception was tendered by Mrs. Mayer of Roane Mountain. Mrs. 
Perkins presented Mrs. W. P. Harris, president of the Monday Club, a beautiful pin in behalf 
of the Federation, as a token of esteem and appreciation of the visiting delegates. 

The eighth annual convention of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs held its 
sessions in Chattanooga, April 20th, 21st and 22d, 1904, by invitation of the eight federated 
clubs of that city. The Woman’s Club, Mission Ridge Club, Woman’s Christian Temperance 
Union, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Park Place, Pro Re Bona Book Club and 
The Helpers. 

The address of welcome was given by Mrs. R. D. Wilson, second vice-president, and Mrs. 
C. A. Perkins responded very charmingly. The reports of committees were very encourag¬ 
ing as the clubs were coming to realize that their work was not only for self-improvement, 
but that it should be humanity-lifting as well. 

Miss Mary L. Proudfit, of the public schools committee, reported many things of interest 
the clubs were dong to assist the teachers in the schools. Visiting committees had been 
appointed in many clubs and pictures had been donated. The Tuesday Club of Maryville was 
the banner club in public school work. A committee of this club had met with the teachers 
and asked in what respect they might lend their aid. The club secured over sixty vol¬ 
umes of books for the schools, some being text-books for poor children and books of refer¬ 
ence, and in addition to these, charts and pictures were given. 

Through Mr. R. A. Brown of Knoxville, a compulsory education bill was presented for 
passage by the legislature. 

Mrs. L. C. Schneider, chairman of the traveling library committee, reported that during 
the year twenty-one libraries had been placed under the control of the Federation. Mrs. Per¬ 
kins had given several lectures in the state for the benefit of the library fund. A plea was 
sent out to all the Federated clubs asking each club woman to give 5 cents for traveling 
library work and $17.25 were donated. There were now seventy-five libraries under the con¬ 
trol of the Federation. Mrs. Matthew McClung reported that seven clubs had established 

libraries open to the public. , 

Mrs W H Richards reported that different educational institutions ot the state had 
given seven scholarships, for which there were sixteen applicants from various clubs. Two 
were given by Maryville college, two in the Peabody Normal and two in the University of 
Tennessee, and the sum of $50 was also given by a member of the Federation for a scholar¬ 
ship in the University of Tennessee. , 

Mrs Rebecca Wilson, chairman of industrial conditions, reported that the \\ omen s 
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tion with the Frances W illard home, and that the Monday Club of Johnson City was having 
marked success with a sewing school in its charge. Miss Margerite Henry reported excellent 
woik done in the mountain settlement school and the sum of $113.50 was raised for carrying 
on the work. 

The broadening ot the Federation was shown by the appointment of additional commit¬ 
tees. Once, two or three committees covered the scope of its aspirations; then, as the busy 
brains and warm hearts ot hundreds of women set themselves to work upon the needs of 
humanity, each year one or two new departments were added. That seven new clubs had 
joined the federation during the year was reported by Miss Kate White, chairman of club 
extension, lhe clubs of the Federation presented the Federation, in the name of Mrs. Perkins, 
two sets of Rolfe s Edition ot Shakespeare, put up in a handsome traveling case, to be known 
as the ‘ Angie Warren Perkins” traveling library of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s 
Clubs. 

Mrs. James McCormack, Memphis, and Miss T. Duffy of Chattanooga, made helpful talks on 
“Better School Facilities tor Tennessee.” Mrs. H. M. Carr of Harriman, spoke on “Woman’s 
Legal Disabilities.” An inspiring address was given by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Gailor, D. D., 
LL. D. Mrs. May Alden Ward, president of the Massachusetts Federation of Women’s Clubs, 
addressed the convention on “Voices of Today.” Prof. P. P. Claxton of the University of Ten¬ 
nessee, spoke on “Woman’s Opportunity.” 

The social meetings were greatly enjoyed. The Chattanooga clubs tendered the dele¬ 
gates and visitors a trip up the Lookout Mountain incline, and they were guests at luncheon 
of Mrs. Jas. R. Reid, president of the Helpers’ Club of Lookout Mountain. 

The ninth annual convention was held in Memphis May 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1905, by invi¬ 
tation of the Nineteenth Century Club. 

The officers of Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs, at this time were: President, 
Mrs. A. S. Buchanan, Memphis; First Vice-President, Mrs. M. L. Dame, Harriman; 
Second Vice-President, Mrs. Cecilia Lord Follett, Maryville; Third Vice-President, Mrs. 
H. Gouchenour, Greeneville; Recording Secretary, Miss Ella Ransom, Tullahoma; Correspond¬ 
ing Secretary, Mrs. S. M. Williamson, Memphis; Treasurer, Mrs. L. C. Schneider, Chatta¬ 
nooga; Auditor, Mrs. Joseph Johnson, Cleveland; General Federation State Secretary, Mrs. 
James L. Minor, Memphis. ^ 

The address of welcome was given by Mrs. B. F. Turner, president of Nineteenth Cen¬ 
tury Club. Mrs. A. S. Buchanan responded in behalf of the Federation. Splendid reports of 
the traveling libraries were interestingly given by Mrs. Beard and $25.00 was appropriated 
for the use of the traveling libraries’ committee. 

Mrs. Sara Platt-Decker, president of the General Federation, was one of the most promi¬ 
nent speakers at this meeting. Her subject was “Is Federation Worth While?” Mrs. Decker 
spoke of the value of Federation and forcibly showed that all history-making efforts of the 
world were the result of Federation. Mrs. Alvin Yeager, of Knoxville, gave an interesting 
paper on “Settlement Work In the Tennessee Mountains.” 

A delightful reception was tendered the club women in the parlor of the club building, 
and the Memphis Woman’s Club tendered a breakfast at the residence of Mrs. L. B. McFar¬ 
land to the delegates and officers. The Beethoven Music Club entertained the Federation 
with a box party to hear the famous violinist, “Ysaye.” The Memphis News Scimitar pre¬ 
sented the Federation with a library. The Memphis Housekeepers’ Club gave the Federation 
a coaching party through the parks, residence and business portions of the city. 

The interesting reports of the different departments of work of the Federation were very 
inspiring and showed growth along all lines of endeavor. 

The tenth annual convention was held in Nashville, April 18th, 19th and 20th, 1906. An 
address of welcome for the city of Nashville was given by Mrs. Benton McMillin and responded 
to by Mrs. A. S. Buchanan, state president. There were present, beside the officers of 
the Federation, ninety-one delegates and twenty-two alternates. Mrs. Henry Myers, Mem¬ 
phis, read a paper on “Domestic Science and Pure F ood Problems, and Mrs. B. W. Martin, 
on the “Evolution of a Civic Association.” Mrs. Jas. McCormack, Memphis, in an address 
told what good the Federation could do and was doing for the public schools in Tennessee. 
Mrs. Perkins gave an address on “Our Mountaineers” with stereopticon. 

The committee of domestic science and education was added to the standing committees 
of the Federation. The necessity of a juvenile court law was shown by Mrs. T. M. Steger, of 
Nashville, in a talk on the subject. 

Social features of the meeting were very enjoyable. Mrs. Walker Edwards gave a recep¬ 
tion complimentary to visiting members and delegates. A concert given by the Philharmonic 
Society under the direction of Mrs. S. A. Champion was very uplifting and highly apprecia- 


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ti\e. A trip to the Hermitage, twelve miles trom Nashville, and a luncheon tendered by the 
Hermitage Association to all the members of the Federation were much enjoyed. 

xr- ^ ie f . ollowin 8 officers were elected: President, Mrs. Benton McMillin, Nashville; First 
Vice-President, Miss Kate White, Knoxville; Second Vice-President, Mrs. Wesley Halliburton, 
Memphis, Third \ ice-President, Mrs. Guy Smith, Johnson City; Recording Secretary, Mrs. H. 
M. Winslow, Harriman; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Eugene Crutcher, Nashville; Treasu- 
rei, Mrs. E. \\ . Pentecost, Chattanooga; Auditor, Mrs. Rosa Cawood, Maryville; General Fed- 
eiation State Secretary, Miss Ada Rice, Nashville. Delegates elected to the Biennial at St. 
Paul, were: Mrs. James Greer, Memphis; Miss Kate White, Knoxville; Mrs. C. A. Perkins, 
Knoxville; Mrs. J. B. Michael, Knoxville; Mrs. Win. Knabe, Knoxville; Mrs. Geo. W. Denney, 
Knoxville. During this meeting $60.00 was pledged for social settlement work from various 
clubs. 

The eleventh annual convention was held at Jackson, May 15th, 16 and 17th, 1907, by 
invitation ot the Mutual Improvement Club of that city. An address of welcome was given 
by Mrs. John W. Buford, to which Mrs. McMillin, president, responded. Reports of the 
oflicers and reports from forty-nine clubs were received; reports from the standing commit¬ 
tees were read by their chairmen. Several musical numbers were rendered. Mr. Chas. D. 
Johnston addressed the convention on “The Public Library as an Educational Force.” It was 
agreed that an earnest letter stating the needs of funds for traveling library work should be 
written to each club president and chairman, signed by state president and chairman, as this 
work must lapse if not supported by the clubs. Voluntary pledges amounting to $111.50 were 
made for traveling library work by individuals and club representatives. Mrs. Chas. T. Cates, 
of Knoxville, addressed the convention on “Civics.” Mrs. George Blake read a paper on 
“How to Live.” Need of Pure Food laws was shown by Mrs. S. S. Crockett in a paper on that 
subject. After an address by Miss Margaret Henry on “Summer Schools of the East Ten¬ 
nessee Mountains,” pledges to the amount of $242.00 were taken for summer school work. 
Mrs. H. C. Myers, editor of Club Woman’s page, placed her page at Miss Henry’s disposal 
during July and August for setting the valley settlement work before the people of Ten¬ 
nessee. 

An address on “The Needs of a Reformatory School For Boys and Girls,” was given by 
Mrs. Erwin P. Chase. A permanent committee was appointed for the preservation of historic 
buildings and relics in the State, at the suggestion of Mrs. A. B. Cook, Nashville. Dr. Louis 
LeRoy addressed the Federation on “Medical Examination of School Children.” A reception 
by the ladies of Jackson at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Jones, a reception at the Lyndhurst 
Club, a delightful drive by the Mutual Improvement Club of Jackson, and an artistic concert 
by the Beethoven Club of Memphis, were social features of prominence. 

The twelfth annual convention met at Paris, April 28th, 29th and 30th, 1908, by invitation 
of the Woman’s Club. Addresses of welcome were given by Mrs. D. D. Morton for the woman’s 
clubs and by Mayor John R. Risen in behalf of the city. Mrs. Benton McMillin responded. 
There were fifty-eight delegates present. Mrs. Katherine T. Wright addressed the convention 
on “Arts and Crafts” with exhibit. Pledges to the amount of $200.00 were made by the clubs 
to support the mountain settlement work, and to the amount of $76.20 for library work. A 
health department was created at the suggestion of Mrs. Buchanan to act in connection with 
the department of civics. Mr. Lucius P. Brown, state chemist, addressed the convention on 
“Pure Food and Laws Governing Same.” The following officers were elected: President, 
Mrs. Jas. McCormack, Memphis; Vice-President, Mrs. Chas. T. Cates, Knoxville; Recording 
Secretary, Mrs. W. W. Farabaugh, Paris; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. John R. Greer, Mem¬ 
phis; Treasurer, Mrs. E. W. Pentecost, Chattanooga; Auditor, Mrs. Eugene Crutcher, Nash¬ 
ville; General Federation State Secretary, Mrs. L. C. Schneider, Chattanooga. Delegates 
elected to the Biennial at Boston were Mrs. McCormack, Mrs. Dame, Mrs. Buchanan, Mrs. 
Beard, Mrs. Spencer, Mrs. Dabney, Mrs. Cates. 

The thirteenth annual convention convened in Nashville, April 27th, 28th and 29th, 1909, 
in the Carnegie library building in response to the invitation of the clubs of that city. Mrs. 
A. B. Cook, president of the Housekeepers’ Club, gave a welcome address in behalf of the 
clubs of the city. Mrs. Jas. McCormack responded most graciously. Mrs. Robert Nickol, 
chairman of Domestic Science, made a splendid report on the achievements of this depart¬ 
ment of Federation work along the lines of Pure food and drugs and law enforcement. Mrs. 
Rosa N. Cawood, chairman of Traveling Libraries, reported that the Federation had one 
hundred and eight Libraries, and many of them in communities where they were greatly 
needed. Dr. Lillian Johnson gave an inspiring talk on “Woman’s Clubs As a Factor in Edu¬ 
cation.” She told of the origin of the General Federation, which was due to the Sorosis Club 
of New York, and which had grown, up to this time, to include Federations from forty-six 


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states, with o\ei ten thousand clubs and eight hundred thousand membership. “Woman has 
at last, she said, become a great constructive force. The problem of woman’s sphere has 
been sol\ed, the Madonna of today is organized womanhood, who lifts in her arms not only 
her own child, but the children of the nation and the world, and gives them their birthright— 
the opportunity for the finest training possible.” Dr. David Spence Hill, of Peabody College, 
addressed the convention on Juvenile Delinquency.’’ Mrs. William Woolwine told of the 
tiibute paid to women in juvenile court work by judge Ben Lindsay, who, when asked who 
was the father of the juvenile court law, replied that it had no father, but a mother,—the 
woman’s club. ■*» • 4 * 

K committee vt «»5 appointed, at the request of Mrs. L. C. French, to investigate Tennes¬ 
see laws on the question of property and legal rights of women. Prof. P. P. Claxton addressed 
the convention on “Co-operative Education.” Dr. Elizabeth Kane spoke on the “Merchant vs. 
his female Employe.” Mrs. Rose Cawood read the report of Miss Margaret Henry, chair¬ 
man of Social Settlement Work, who had always been a power to fire the State Federation 
women with enthusiasm and to open their personal and club pocket books to give most gen¬ 
erous contributions. She reported the total amount contributed during the eight years as 
•$1,642.05, and there had been paid out at the same time $1,412.94. One hundred and forty dol¬ 
lars was pledged voluntarily to help carry on this work. Mrs. A. B. Cook, chairman of civics, 
and Mrs. S. S. Crockett, chairman of health, gave fine reports of their work. One of the social 
features of the Federation was a beautiful reception given by Mrs. Leslie Warner at her 
charming home. A tea, given at the Parthenon by the Nashville Art Club, was also greatly 
appreciated. Many beautiful music selections were rendered for the pleasure of the guests. 

The fourteenth annual convention of Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs convened in 
the Patten hotel, Chattanooga, April 27th, 28th and 29th, 1910, in response to the invitation of 
Kosmos Club. Mrs. E. A. Wheatley, president of Kosmos, gave a graceful welcome in behalf 
of the club women of Chattanooga, and Mr. Nathan L. Bachman, city attorney, extended a cor¬ 
dial welcome in behalf of the city. Mrs. Jas. McCormack responded and gave her report outlin¬ 
ing the work of the manifold splendid departments of the Federation. Mrs. Sutton, who gave 
a report of the Pro Re Bona Club, brought before the assembly the children fostered by this 
club, and Mrs. Walker Edwards, of Nashville, as the children were leaving, gave each child $1.00 
as a souvenir of the visit to the Federation. At this time there were seventy-eight clubs enrolled 
in the Federation with an aggregate membership of close to five thousand women. Dr. Lillian 
Johnson asked the endorsement of a bill by Senator Owen of Oklahoma, creating a depart¬ 
ment of public health, its head to be a cabinet officer. The convention heartily endorsed 
same and the delegates pledged themselves to do all in their power to secure its passage. Miss 
Noa reported that the industrial educational department was in excellent condition, the work 
being accomplished without financial support. Mrs. Emily Webb addressed the convention 
at the close of which $620.00 was contributed to the mountain work. At Mrs. A. B. Cook’s 
suggestion a telegram was sent to Washington stating that five thousand women of Ten¬ 
nessee desired the passage of the Owen bill. Mrs. E. G. Buford addressed the Federation 
on “Library and Liberal Education.” Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs adopted 
“Federation Bulletin for the Woman of Today,” as its state paper, ft was decided that the 
traveling libraries be turned over to the free Library commission of the state with a resident 
chairman from the Federation in charge of the circulating department. 

Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs agreed to endorse and support a movement 
before the $ext legislature for an appropriation to place a statue of Andrew Jackson in Statu¬ 
ary Hall, the capitol, Washington, D. C. 

Among the social diversions given was a brilliant reception by Mrs. E. A. Wheatley, at 
her home in St. Elmo, in honor of Mrs. Jas. McCormack, who was her guest. A delightful lunch¬ 
eon was given at the Read House by the Hill City Book Club and the Pro Re Bona Club. 
A visit to Lookout Mountain was enjoyed with the Woman’s Club. The following officers 
were elected: President, Mrs. L. Crozier French, Knoxville; Vice-President, Mrs. M. N. Whit¬ 
aker, Chattanooga; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Sigmund Harpmann, Memphis; Corresponding 
Secretary, Mrs. W. A. Knabe, Knoxville; Treasurer, Mrs. W. M. Woolwine, Nashville; Audi¬ 
tor, Mrs. E. E. Eslick, Pulaski; General Federation State Secretary, Mrs. Geo. W. Denney, Knox¬ 
ville. The following delegates were elected to the Biennial to be held in Cincinnati the fol¬ 
lowing May: Mrs. Jas. McCormack, Mrs. A. B. Cook, Mrs. W. D. Beard, Mrs. S. S. Ciockett, 
Mrs. John Hill Aikin, Mrs. A. Tschopsik, Chattanooga Music Club rendered a most artistic 
musical on the last evening of the convention. 

The fifteenth annual convention was held in the Shelby County Court House, Memphis, 
on May 24th, 25th and 26th, 1911. Mrs. Sigmund Harpmann, chairman of the local executive 


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committee, formally opened the meeting. Miss Cora Ashe gave the welcome address, and the 
address in behalf ot the city was given by Judge J. M. Greer. Mrs. L. Crozier French 
responded. 

Mrs. Watson gave a strong and splendid lecture on the “Gardens of the Public Schools.” 
Mrs. Woolwine, on account of illness, resigned as treasurer, and Mrs. Eugene R. Brown was 
elected as her successor. 

Prof. E. G. Routzahn, ot Chicago, director of the American Tuberculosis Society, deliv¬ 
ered an address which was very educational. Another interesting feature of the meeting was 
the talk by Miss Mary Hannah Johnson, of Nashville, on “Literature and Public Libraries.” 

On an auto ride to Riverside the delegates stopped en route at “Epperstone Lodge,” the 
home of Mrs. S. A. Whittaker, who tendered a reception. This was followed by a picnic sup¬ 
per at Overton Park with Columbine Book Club, Kennedy Book Club and Cherry Circle as hos¬ 
tesses. Luncheon was tendered the delegates by Press and Authors’ Club, Salon Circle and 
the Graduate Nurses’ Association. A reception was tendered by the Teachers’ Educational 
League and a most brilliant musical program was rendered by High School Orchestra, Miss 
Claudina Echols, Miss Blanche Evans, Miss Nellie Lunn, Miss Leona Carter, Miss Lidia Carr. 
Luncheon was given one day at the Gayoso by the Business Men’s Club. 

The sixteenth annual convention was held in Sewanee by invitation of Sewanee Civic 
League. The meeting was opened by Mrs. R. Kirby Smith, president of Hostess Club. An 
address of welcome was given by Dr. Wm. R. Hall, vice chancellor of the University Theo¬ 
logical Department. Response was made by Mrs. Eslick, auditor of the Federation. Mrs. 
French gave her annual address and, at its close, a reception was tendered the delegates and 
visitors by the Civic League. Mrs. Pentecost, former treasurer of the Federation and presi¬ 
dent of W. C. T. U., Chattanooga, presented Mrs. French with a gavel. It was ordered that 
the legislative committee unite with others in an appeal to the legislature for an appropria¬ 
tion for “tuberculosis sanitariums to be placed in our counties.” Mr. Wm. Hard of the 
Delineator, gave a much-needed address on “Laws Concerning Women.” Miss Cora Ashe spoke 
on “Peace and Arbitration,” and Mrs. R. B. Parker, of Knoxville City Beautiful League, gave 
stereopticon views and spoke on “City Improvements.” 

The Lookout, printed at Chattanooga, and edited by Miss Zella Armstrong, was adopted as 
the official organ of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs. Mrs. Hard, chairman of 
mountain settlement work, gave her report and, at its close, the Federation voted that each 
of the three divisions of the state equip and sustain for six months one of these mountain set¬ 
tlement stations established by the Tennessee Federation. The Federation pledged its sup¬ 
port to the county superintendents in their efforts to carry on a campaign against illiteracy 
in Tennessee. 

The convention in Sewanee was one of the most successful in the history of the Federa¬ 
tion, for it brought together sixty club families, all with one purpose, one aim, one object, the 
betterment and uplift of the human race. Every form of agitation for good had some 
woman’s club behind it, and where a few years previous a leader stood painfully alone, now 
many women stood hand in hand ready to battle for what they believed to be right. The Ten¬ 
nessee Federation of Women’s Clubs pledged itself to stand in the strongest way against the 
comic supplement, and to do all in its power to suppress it. 

The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. A. B. Cook, Nashville; Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, Mrs. Ben T. Howard, Chattanooga; Recording Secretary, Mrs. W. S. Harkness, Jellico; 
Corresponding Secretary, Miss Sara Scoggins, Nashville; Treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Gardener, 
Martin; Auditor, Mrs. E. E. Eslick, Pulaski; General Federation State Secretary, Mrs. S. S. 
Crockett, Nashville. 

The seventeenth annual convention of Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs convened 
in the Nineteenth Century Club home in Memphis, May 7th, 8th and 9th, 1913. Mrs. J. M. 
McCormack formally opened the meeting. A few words of greeting were spoken by Mr. 
Harry B. Anderson, president of the Business Men’s Club, to which Mrs. Ben T. Howard, vice- 
president, responded most graciously. Miss Zella Armstrong, editor of the Lookout, the 
official organ of the Federation, presented to Mrs. Cook a beautiful gavel bearing a silver 
inscription, in behalf of the Press and Author’ Club of Chattanooga. Mrs. U. S. Rogerson 
presented a handsome bouquet of full bloom roses and giant peonies in bebalf of the Press and 
Authors’ Club of Memphis. The esteemed president, Mrs. A. B. Cook, gave a most impressive 
and uplifting address to the assembled body. A brilliant reception and delightful musical 
was enjoyed by all the delegates at the Nineteenth Century Club home. 1 he musical piogram 
was under the direction of Mrs. E. B. Douglass, president of the Beethoven Club and chair¬ 
man of music for the Federation convention. Every numbei was very much enjoyed and 


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enthusiastically applauded. Miss Williams, superintendent of Shelby County schools, and the 
lii st woman elected president of the State School Officers’ Association, spoke on “The Reduc- 
tion ot Illiteracy in Tennessee.” Prof. S. A. Mynders also spoke on “Wider Use of School 
Buildings and Equipment.” Mrs. Cook gave an interesting talk on the different departments 
o the redeiation, and ot the great growth of the work of women, how they had brought 
about better conditions by united effort, etc. 

Dr. Yarros, of Chicago, in an address on the subject “Significance of the Social Hygiene 
Movement,” told of the wonderful work the department of health is doing in the General 
Federation and in our State. 

Miss (mi a Mell Patton, ot Chicago, addressed the convention on “The Drama League of 
America.” 

Mis. Pei kins gave her report ot Mountain Settlement Work, and at its close, .$390.00 was 
donated by the individuals and clubs. 

The Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs endorsed the health resolution adopted by 
the General federation: First—Enforcement of Pure Food Laws. Second — Free medical 
inspection in schools. Third—A national health certificate. Fourth—A certificate of free¬ 
dom from venereal diseases in applicants for marriage license. 

It was resolved that all cities of Tennessee having municipal police departments should 
appoint women police officials, whose duties shall be to inspect moving picture shows, dance 
halls and other public places ot amusement where young girls and women congregate for 
recreation.” 

It was also resolved that Tennessee Federation of Womens Clubs put itself on record as 
favoring a state law which will give equal compensation to women and men teachers for 
equal service. 

The social features were very pleasant and afforded the delegates opportunity to become 
better acquainted. It was resolved that “Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs extend 
its hearty appreciation of the charming hospitality of the Nineteenth Century Club, to Mrs. 
Jas. M. McCormack, president, for her cordial invitation, warm welcome and gracious hos¬ 
pitality; to Mrs. E. B. Douglass, president of Beethoven Club, for the delightful music fur¬ 
nished throughout the convention, and to Miss Augusta Semmes, chairman of Music Depart¬ 
ment Nineteenth Century Club; to Mrs. Sam Phillips for making possible a delightful auto 
ride to Overton Park; to Mrs. Gray for the lovely reception Wednesday evening.” 

The closing feature of the Federation was the installation of the newly elected president, 
Mrs. Geo. W. Denney of Knoxville. The General Federation State Secretary elected was 
Mrs. Russell of Chattanooga. 

Delegates elected to the Biennial in Chicago were: Mrs. Jas. McCormack and Mrs. 
Buchanan, Memphis; Mrs. E. E. Eslick, Pulaski; Mrs. George Blake and Mrs. Hickman Price, 
Nashville; Mrs. Whittaker, Chattanooga; Miss Cora Ashe, Memphis. 

The eighteenth convention met in Pulaski, May 13th, 14th and 15th, 1914. Mrs. E. E. 
Eslick greeted the convention in a very gracious and cordial manner, and Mr. R. W. Ragsdale, 
president of the Business Men’s Club, delivered a beautiful address in which womanhood 
was exalted. Mayor Wheeler addressed the convention and spoke of the days when women 
were held in subjection, and of their wonderful development. In paying a tribute to Frances 
E. Willard, he said no woman leader in the history of the world had ever done for the world 
at large more than she. Mrs. F. B. St. John, of Johnson City, responded to the addresses of 
welcome in beautiful words of appreciation. 

In the report of the treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Gardner, it was shown that the total cash 
received during the past year was $1,625.69, and the cash expended $757.26. 

In Mrs. Denney’s address, she said the one thing of greatest importance accomplished 
during the past year, outside of the growth of the Federation, was the extension of publicity 
work. She said there were three things she would like to see come to pass before her term 
of office expired: First, a hill providing for a vocational school for girls passed by the next 
legislature; second, Tennessee’s apportionment of the General Federation Endowment Fund 
paid in full, and third, she would like to see this Federation start an endorsement. Mrs. Denney 
appointed at the beginning of her term of office several new chairmen of departments. The 
complete list of chairmen were: Art, Miss Pearl Saunders, Nashville; Civil Service Reform, 
Mrs. Percy Finley, Memphis; Conservation, Mrs. M. B. Arnstein, Knoxville; Story Telling, 
Miss Mabel Cooper, Memphis; Home Economics, Mrs. Frank Herbrick, Nashville; Public 
Health, Mrs. Claude D. Sullivan, Nashville; Food Sanitation, Mrs. Henry P. McMillan, Harri- 
man; School Hygiene, Mrs. E. E. Houk, Memphis; Civics, Mrs. Win. A. Knabe, Knoxville; 
Education, Mrs. L. M. Russell, Chattanooga; Historic Research, Mrs. Eugene Crutcher, Nash¬ 
ville; Mountain Settlement, Mrs. C. A. Perkins, Knoxville; Industrial and Social Conditions, 


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Jj rs * ?/ St. John, Johnson City; Legislation, Mrs. Alex Caldwell, Nashville; Literature, 

Mrs. Geo. E. Blake, Nashville; Music, Mrs. Prudence Simpson Dresser, Nashville. 

A new featuie of this convention was that department conferences were held by their 
respective chairmen separate from the convention proper. 

Mrs. Ben T. Howard, vice-president and chairman of the General Federation of Endow¬ 
ment Fund, reported that Tennessee’s obligation to the general endowment fund had not 
been met in full and urged that this be done in the coming year. 

Dr. Lillian Johnson, of Memphis, and Miss Ernestine Noa, of Chattanooga, members of 
the United States commission to investigate rural conditions in Europe, gave able addresses 
on their trips in Europe. There were ninety-one delegates and seven officers present. Mrs. 
Leslie Warner, of Nashville, addressed the convention on the “Life and Works of Michael 
Angelo,” Mrs. C. B. Wallace on the “Study of the Bible as Literature;” Mrs. John Bell Kee- 
ble on the Power of Poetry.” One of the best addresses of this convention was that of Mrs. 
Isaac Reese, of Memphis, on “The Woman of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.” Mrs. L. M. 
Russell, of Chattanooga, chairman of education, exhibited a series of stereopticon pictures of 
Tennessee schools, through the courtesy of Mr. W. B. Romine, of Pulaski. 

Mrs. John Bell Keeble gave an artistic reading, a translation of Goethe’s “Erl King,” also 
a touching poem against child labor. 

Mrs. Alex Caldwell recounted very cleverly the past achievements of the Federation along 
legislative lines in the passing of the woman’s property rights bill, and outlined some future 
hopes along legislative lines. Mrs. C. A. Perkins gave a brief outline of the work of the 
three mountain schools supported by the Tenesseee Federation, at the close of which $629.00 
was contributed. 

Dr. H. H. Shoulders, of Nashville, state register of vital statistics, gave an able and help¬ 
ful address before the convention. Dr. Alfred H. Brown, of Brooklyn, spoke of the “Drama 
League of America,” and also gave as a reading “In the Vanguard,” by Katrina Trask. 

The newly elected officers were: Vice-President, Mrs. Ben T. Howard, Chattanooga; Re¬ 
cording Secretary, Mrs. W. S. Harkness, Jellico; Treasurer, Mrs. Clarence H. Crego, Jack- 
son; Auditor, Mrs. Isaac Reese, Memphis. 

Dr. Lillian H. South, state bacteriologist of Bowling Green, Ky., spoke on “The New Pub¬ 
lic Health,” and showed wonderful slides to illustrate the ravages of the hookworm, typhoid 
and tubercular germs. Mrs. Denney called Mrs. John C. Brown, wife of ex-Governor Brown, 
to the platform, and introduced her to the audience. She made a delightful little talk. Then 
Mrs. Sara Beaumont Kennedy, the paragraph writer of the South, gave two original little 
poems entitled “My Ship O’Dream,” and “The Sparkling Plug.” 

The social features of this convention were very charming. The reception at the spa¬ 
cious home of Miss Ballentine was delightful and the automobile drive and garden party at 
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ragsdale deserve special mention. The luncheons given in 
the dining room of the Methodist church by the Woman’s Clubs of Pulaski were delightful. 
The convention adjourned with a rising vote of thanks to the state president, Mrs. Denney 
for the banner convention in every way, and to meet a year hence in Morristown. 

Mrs. Thomas Peacock Miller, the corresponding secretary of the Tennessee Federation 
reported at this convention, that eighty-seven clubs were enrolled in the Federation when 
the new administration went into office, and that twenty-one new clubs had come into the fold 
since; one had disbanded. Thirteen clubs had joined the General Federation where, up to 
this year, only three had belonged. This growth of the Federation was due to the wide 
publicity given to its work and worthy efforts by The Lookout of Chattanooga, its official 
organ, Miss Zella Armstrong, editor; the Nashville Banner, Nashville, with Miss Libbie 
Morrow, editor, and last, but not least, the page, “What Busy Club Women Are Doing in 
Tennessee and Elsewhere,” edited by Mrs. Thomas Peacock Miller in the Sunday edition of 
the Journal and Tribune of Knoxville. 

The nineteenth convention of Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs met in Morris¬ 
town, May 5th, 6th and 7th, 1915. The convention was called to order by Mrs. J. T. Graichen, 
president of the Ladies’ Reading Circle of Morristown. Addresses of welcome were delivered 
by Hon. John B. Holloway, Miss Mary B. Watkins of the Etude Club, and Mrs. R. S. C. Berry, 
president of Soma Sala. To these addresses, very heartily and joyously given and abound¬ 
ing with hospitality, Mrs. Isaac Reese of Memphis responded. Mrs. Percy \ . Pennybacker, 
president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, was present, and Mrs. Denney intro¬ 
duced her to the convention. She made a few timely remarks and urged that men and 
women work together in the club activities. Mrs. George W. Denney addressed the conven¬ 
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many lines of endeavor The convention endorsed the “Illiteracy Commission Bill,” then 
pen in ft e o ie le legislatuie, and at the suggestion of Miss Libbie Morrow, a telegram was 
sent to Julian Strauss in regard to the passage of this illiteracy bill. Mrs. Iv. P. Jones led 
in a health conference where Mrs. Charles Simms spoke on “Causes of the Great White 
Plague; Mrs. Claude Sullivan on “Cures of Tuberculosis;” Mrs. H. G. Huffaker on “How 
Tubeiculosis Can Be Prevented. Mrs. C. A. Perkins spoke on “Mountain Settlement Work,” 
and over $o00 was pledged for the maintenance of same. Mrs. M. B. Arnstein, chairman of 
conservation, delivered an able address on “Conservation” Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, 
the distinguished speaker of the meeting, addressed the convention on “The General Fed- 
eiation as a Sociological Force. She spoke for more than an hour and was given the clos¬ 
est attention by the laige audience, which graced the occasion. Mrs. Rutledge Smith of 
Cookev ille, paid a most beautiful tribute to the states of Texas and Tennessee at the close 
ol Mis. Pennybacker s address. Mrs. Isaac Reese spoke on the “Influence of Club Life on 
Women.” 

.Mis. Alex Caldwell ol Nashville, chairman of legislation, gave a talk on “Echoes from the 
Legislature. Mrs. Caldwell had much to do with getting through the assembly two Federa¬ 
tion bills, one providing for a vocational training school for girls, and the other making 
women eligible to positions on school boards. Her address was quite witty and very much 
enjoyed. 

Mrs. L. D. Tyson, Knoxville, addressed the convention on “Civics.” C. C. Menzler, sec¬ 
retary ot the state board of charities, spoke on “The Social and Charitable System of the 
State From a Humane Point of View.” 

Dr. Lillian Johnson conducted a conference on “Rural Welfare.” Mrs. Eldridge read a 
paper on “A Cry from the Rural Districts,” written by Mrs. Elizabeth D. Abernathy. Miss 
V irginia Moore, as state agent for Tennessee’s Girls’ Canning Club work, urged the co-opera¬ 
tion of club women, with these canning clubs, and advocated the creation of a market com¬ 
mittee in the Federation to assist these girls in marketing their products. The Federation 
pledged its hearty co-operation. 

The public schools of Morristown adjourned in order that the children could attend the 
federation and hear the program on Story Telling. Mrs. Charles T. Cates made a fine 
address on the “Art of Story Telling.” Mrs. David McGowan gave a Russian fairy story, and 
Mrs. M. B. Arnstein spoke inspiringly on “Birds, Flowers and Conservation.” 

An important feature of this convention was the creation of a department of club exten¬ 
sion. The president felt that this would prove the most effective way of building up the 
state organization, and in this she has not been mistaken. Mrs. Claude D. Sullivan was ap¬ 
pointed chairman of the newly created department; she, in turn, appointing a chairman for 
each of the ten congressional districts of the state. These chairmen, by districts, are: First, 
Mrs. W. W. Harmon, Greeneville; second, Mrs. Lula Harris, Morristown; third, Mrs. J. H. 
Daly, Chattanooga; fourth, Mrs. Rutledge Smith, Cookeville; fifth, Mrs. N. P. Carter, Fay¬ 
etteville; sixth, Mrs. A. H. Purdue, Nashville; seventh Miss Estelle Edwards, Centerville; 
eighth, Mrs. Birdie A. Owen, Jackson; ninth, Mrs. James F. Biggs, Dyersburg; tenth, Mrs. 
Thomas T. Johnson, Memphis. During the first club year of this department, five district 
meetings were held. The districts holding conventions were: First, at Greeneville; second, 
at Morristown; sixth, at Nashville; eighth, at Jackson, and tenth, at Memphis. Through the 
efforts of this department more than thirty new clubs have been added to the membership 
roll of the Federation. During the same year, five additional clubs have joined the General 
Federation. 

Mrs. Denney, the state president, attended all the district meetings and delivered an 
address on “The Value of the Federation” at each meeting, she addressing delegates repre¬ 
senting more than two-thirds of the total membership of the Federation. 

Mrs. George W. Denney was re-elected president, Mrs. R. S. C. Berry, of Morristown, 
was elected General Federation state secretary. The following ladies were elected as dele¬ 
gates to the Biennial to meet in New York City in May, 1916: Mesdames Alex. Caldwell, Nash¬ 
ville; Rutledge Smith, Cookeville; Iv. P. Jones, Maryville; T. P. Miller, Knoxville; Ben T. How¬ 
ard, Chattanooga; C. A. Perkins, Knoxville; Henry McMillan, Harriman; Dr. Lillian W. 
Johnson, Memphis. 

The social side of the convention was thoroughly delightful. In all the events there was 
a tone of elegance, and they were enjoyed by all the delegates and guests. The opening recep¬ 
tion was tendered at the home of Mrs. J. N. Fisher; the Daughter of American Revolution 
gave a charming reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Cauless, and the hostess clubs 
entertained with a five-course luncheon at the homes of Mrs. Herbert Reagan and Mrs. Lynn 
Shelby. The convention adjourned to meet a year hence in Chattanooga. 


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I he Tennessee Federation feels that it has accomplished a great work since its organi¬ 
zation in 1896, and its growth along every line of work has been marvelous. Much has been 
done along department lines, most especially in legislation, for, through the influence of our 
legislative committee, and our state president, with the legislature, a vocational training 
school for the delinquent girls is to be built in the heart of the state in Tullahoma, the board 
ot trade ot that little city having donated two hundred and twelve acres for the building site. 

The history of the Tennessee training school for delinquent girls, and how this dream 
ot a few club women of the state is about to become a reality, is perhaps pretty well known, 
but may be briefly reviewed. 

The movement was originated by Ossoli circle, the oldest woman’s club in the state and 
one of the best known. Shortly after being elected president of the Tennessee Federation of 
Women’s clubs, Mrs. George W. Denney, a member of Ossoli, suggested that the State Federa¬ 
tion make the founding of such an institution as a training school for delinquent girls its 
special legislative work for 1914. She further suggested that the legislative department of the 
Federation work to have a hill passed in the legislature making women eligible to serve on 
school boards and on boards of control of all institutions containing women and children. 

The legislative department of the Federation took up these suggestions, coming through 
Ossoli, with the result that both passed. 

But the bill providing for the training school had a thrilling history in the halls of the 
state legislature. The bill, as first drawn, carried with it an appropriation of $50,000 and 
it met with some strong and determined opposition. 

But for the fact that three women of the state, Mesdaines Alex. Caldwell and Sullivan, of 
Nashville, and George W. Denney, of Knoxville, “lobbied” in the legislature for the passage of 
the bill, it is hardly probable that it would have passed. 

The bill as originally drawn, calling for an appropriation of $50,000, passed the house 
but was held up in the senate. It finally passed the senate, but with the appropriation hav¬ 
ing been cut down to $35,000, instead of the original $50,000. 

Following the passage of the bill, Gov. Rye appointed the board of managers, which con¬ 
sists of five persons, two of whom are women. The following compose the board: Messrs. 
Brown, of Nashville; Ogilvie, of Brownsville; Creighton, of Nashville; Mrs. George W. Den¬ 
ney, of Knoxville, and Mrs. Alex. Caldwell, of Nashville. 

In addition to the $35,000 appropriation, the hill calls for an annual appropriation of 
$125 per capita for the maintenance of the school. 

The idea of the school is to give to delinquent girls of this state home life and home 
training, and to get away as far as possible from the institutional idea. All girls put into 
the school will be under the care of the state until twenty-one years of age. They are to 
be trained and taught some useful work or trade, each girl given the training for which she 
is best suited and shows the most aptitude. 

The two club women on the board of managers of the school are anxious for the Federa¬ 
ted Club Women of the state to make it their aim to build one of the cottages at the institu¬ 
tion. As the school grows and more funds are available, those in charge hope to erect sev¬ 
eral cottages where the girls may be domiciled. In this way, they will have the home influ¬ 
ence more marked than if all were living in one large building. These cottages are to each 
accommodate about a dozen girls, and each will cost in the neighborhood of $6,000. It would 
be, it is thought, a most creditable work for the State Federation of Women’s Clubs to 
undertake the building of one of the cottages on the training school campus, and call it the 
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jflrg. Ssiaac Eeese 


“The perfect woman nobly planned 
To warn, to comfort and command.” 

These lines come unbidden to our mind as the subject of our sketch is mentioned. Perhaps no woman of 
the State at the present time more aptly fits the poet’s idea of woman than Mrs. Isaac Reese—a woman who 
has nobly fulfilled the old-fashioned idea of woman as a home-maker and a mother, Mrs. Reese has in the 
zenith of her powers turned her attention to work for humanity. “God made her of spirit, fire and dew.” 

Distinctly constructive in her efforts, bending her every endeavor to bring out the best in those with 
whom she comes in contact, Mrs. Reese has in a pre-eminent degree the rare quality of self-abnegation. 

A woman of great personal charm, of breadth of culture and brilliance of mind, Mrs. Reese stands out as 
a shining light among the great names in Tennessee’s history. 

. When living in Nashville, tiring of the aimlessness and frivolity of a purely social prestige, Mrs. Reese 
conceived the idea of bringing together her society friends and the intellectual life of the city centering in 
the Vanderbilt University. To this end, she threw open her home on Friday evenings to a coterie of the more 
ambitious social leaders and the professors from the University and the most prominent clergymen of the 
city. Lectures w'ere given and free discussion of pertinent problems encouraged. The evenings were called 
by the local press a “Salon” and grew in popularity until they indeed rivalled the Salon of the French women 
of the time of the Louis. Removing from Nashville to Paducah, I\y., Mrs. Reese again became the leader of 
the literary life of the town, naming and perfecting the Delphic Club, one of the most progressive women’s 
clubs of the South. In Memphis she has been equally active in literary circles. She has been the president of 
the Woman’s Club and of the Nineteenth Century Club. 

A writer of ability, Mrs. Reese is the author of a novel of remarkable dramatic ability. She has appeared 
w'ith marked success upon the lecture platform, and has been honored in the last few weeks by being the first 
woman nominated and elected for the Memphis Board of Education on the Non-Partisan ticket. 

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JMstorp of tlje Jtlountain Settlement ®otfe of tfje 
^Tennessee jFeberation of Women’s Clubs 


By Mrs. Charles A. Perkins. 



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f AR up in the heart of the Big Smoky Mountains lies a 
little valley called Walker’s Valley, from the name of 
the man who came there with his wife and three chil¬ 
dren forty-five years ago, because here he could have 
his land free within these great mountain walls. Here he 
built his two-room log cabin. Then another man and his wife 
moved in with ten children. From across the mountain other 
families came, until there were fifty persons, more than half 
of whom were children. 

In the history of that valley, for forty years it was a little 
sleepy hollow. They never had a public school, the nearest 
one being seven miles distant. No one ever came to break for 
them the bread of life. 

The men hunted and fished, and sometimes ploughed and 
planted. The women sheared the sheep, spun the yarn, wove 
the cloth and made the clothes. Besides their household duties, 
they worked the garden patch, did most of the hoeing and harvesting, and in this way eked 
out a livelihood. 

The first educational impulse that came to this community was through an invalid son. 
It is such a rare thing to be an invalid in these mountains that they said “Moses must be 
educated,” and they sent him for a whole term of four months down to an adjoining val¬ 
ley, boarded him there, and let him learn to read and write. Then Moses came back to be 
an oracle of wisdom. He taught his father and some of the brothers and sisters by a pine- 
knot fire. 


Moses’ father realized the value of an education, and his heart was touched with the fact 
that the little children of the neighborhood were growing up in ignorance. He appealed to 
the board of commissioners of Blount county, and begged them to give the valley children a 
few weeks of school, but his efforts were in vain, though he never lost courage. Again in 
July, 1901, he made the same earnest request, and this time the commissioners promised him 
eight weeks of school. Mr. S. H. Dunn was the first teacher in that valley. He says: “It 
was amusing to see the children, who had never entered a school room before, come, 
some of the boys carrying guns; but pity predominated when I looked into their bright little 
faces, and saw their eagerness to learn.” That was the beginning. 

At the request of the club women, the term was lengthened to four months the next 
year, and Blount county has given the valley people a public school of sixteen weeks each 
year since then. 

An interest in the valley was awakened by a plea made through the columns of the Mary¬ 
ville Times, by this first public school teacher. In the summer of 1902 the women of the four 
clubs nearest the valley—Ossoli and Newman Circle of Knoxville, and the Tuesday and Chil- 
howee Clubs of Maryville—opened a settlement school there. Soon the Athena Club of Knox- 
\ille and the Kosmos Club of Chattanooga joined the circle of clubs carrying forward this 
work. 

The Chilhowee Club hears a mountain name, and it was fitting that in this club plans 
should first be discussed and formulated for placing a settlement school in Walker’s Valley. 

It was the generous gift of fifty dollars from Ossoli Circle that saved the day, and put 
the work on a sure financial basis. This could not have been done without the co-operation 
of the other clubs. 

The work also received a fresh impetus and inspiration from Mrs. Charles A. Perkins, of 
Knoxville. It was through her influence and under her presidency of the State Federation 
that the work first took shape and moved forward to its fuller development. She visited 
Walker’s Valley several times, and personally contributed largely toward the support of the 
school. In fact, the first official act in regard to the Federation taking up mountain settle¬ 
ment work was the vote of the Federation, in convention assembled at Harriman in April, 
1901, that a committee should be appointed to undertake work among our mountaineers. 

Mr. Walker and Mr. Webb cut the logs in the woods near by and built the little log 
cottage, while most of the boards were brought by Mr. Webb and his brother on their backs 
from a saw mill over the mountain. 


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Much interest was manifested in the building of this new cabin, which, with its unheardof 
porch and rocking chair, and a few conveniences unknown before to that neighborhood, 
was the wonder of all the people round about. For in this valley there was a dearth of 
kitchen utensils, there being at that time only two cooking stoves, two flat irons and no 
washtub among these people. 

Under these efficient teachers the school opened with an enrollment of sixteen, which 
increased to thirty-three at the end of the month. Their ages ranged from three to thirty 
years. Many of the children were so bright and apt that they made remarkable progress. 
That same summer, two little children walked to school each morning from their home, five 
miles up the mountain, bringing their meager luncheon of corn pone and ros’n ears in a little 
brass kettle. The teachers did more than gather the children into the log cabin. They beau¬ 
tified it with pictures, and with soap, sand and water made it a model of neatness. By 
running the work on schedule time, they taught the mountain children the value of prompt¬ 
ness. The little homes in the valley were transformed even with two summers’ work. 

The Fourth of July was celebrated for the first time in the valley. The State and 
?>ational songs were sung by the children. The Stars and Stripes floated on the mountain 



breezes from a tall flagpole that had been set up near the school house. Who can tell what 
far-reaching influence toward patriotism and good citizenship was produced when, through 
flag and speech and song and story, the children were made to feel that they were a vital 
part of this glorious country of ours. 

Describing one of her trips, Mrs. Perkins says: “The Sunday morning I was there 
dawned bright and clear, and at 9:15 o’clock the children assembled for Sunday school and 
at its close, came the regular church service. In the little log cabin, eighteen by twenty feet, 
with its puncheon floor, showing large cracks between the timbers, we find torty-five persons, 
- -- ~ <■-—- r —— the railroad and lumber 


some coming from a distance of three or four 
camps, but all interested, and forming a most 


miles, others from 
attentive audience. 


“Let me picture for you one family, within a stone’s throw of our school. A one-room 
cabin, where the light of the sun falls only upon puncheon floor as it gleams through the 
doorway or through the small square hole cut in the logs in lieu of a window this is le 
home of the mother of seven children. The woman, though clad in calico and barefooted, 
has a gentle, refined face, which tells of some ancestor who had never seen these conditions 


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°L hte : Sh . e greets her guests cordially and invites them to stay to supper, and then the won- 

tieir mmds ’ ™ here wlU she find chairs enough, as only two are in sight. But, 
, ‘ 16 emergency, alter the colTee is boiled on the coals, and the cornbread is baked 

bet ore them, and the board table is spread with a cloth made of flour sacks sewed together, 
sie raws up the hoard cradle, turns it over, and, placing two pillows on the bottom, invites 
her company to take a seat thereon. 

Sad, indeed, had been the last use ot that cradle, about two weeks before, for it had 
rocked to sleep tor the last time a beautiful baby girl, born the previous summer, and 
named in honor of the much-loved teacher. 


The tiny form, wrapped in white by the hands of Mrs. Webb, was placed in the little 
col j made by her son. There was a beautiful burial service which touched the hearts of the 
people, and brought Heaven nearer to the child-life of the valley. The body was consigned to 
ns last resting place on a hillside near by, wdiere sleep twelve others over whom no last 
rites had been said.” 

•i da ^. ad . die y ear the last day of school, when the parents come to hear the 
childien lecite their lessons and speak the pieces which they have learned for this occa¬ 



sion. These children, clad in bright, fresh clothing, make a very interesting picture as 
they are seated on the grass under the apple trees, and they certainly perform their parts 
in a manner that would do credit to pupils who have had greater advantages. After this 
comes the picnic, when they partake of doughnuts and cakes brought all the way from Knox¬ 
ville. 

Thus this isolated people have done their part during the fourteen years since the Feder¬ 
ation school was opened. They helped build the teacher’s house, and deeded the land on 
which it stands to the Federation. They gave the school house, poor as it is, hut the best 
they had. They contributed of their scanty income—chickens, corn and potatoes—to help 
defray the expenses of their children wdio have attended school at Maryville. They have 
been interested in the work, and loved the workers. As a noticeable outward result, par¬ 
ents and children are improved in appearance, while all have learned to live more in accord¬ 
ance with Nature’s laws, and their houses are neater and better kept. More attention is 
being given to gardening and farming, and to the raising of sheep and poultry. Where one 
steer did the work in 1902, they now have four. A wagon, brought all the way from Knox¬ 
ville, has supplemented the sled which w^as used alike in summer and in winter, and w-as 
the only vehicle in all that valley. 


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° U j ° f t,10se J?omes have come eleven boys and girls who have attended school in Mary- 
.1 e ’ ^ ,. ere . e y/} ld most excellent work, and tour of these girls have returned and taught 
the public school in the valley. One of these girls has married a mountaineer, and, in her 
neat home, is instilling into the minds of her children those principles which have made 
her own life so exemplary. 


Walker’s Valley has also come into touch with the outer world through the summer 
visits ot men and women from various parts of the country, educators, lawyers, artists and 

wn ers w °. la y e found their way into this valley, each one of whom has carried some 
message of inspiration to the people. 

• w ? r k probably have gone on indefinitely, but the population of these moun¬ 

tain sides has been decimated by the moving away of families, who have followed the lum¬ 
ber camps where the men have found employment. It was, therefore, voted at the Federa¬ 
te 11 meeting, held in Pulaski, in May, 1914, to discontinue the regular work in that valley 
alter the next summer. The salary of the worker for the summer of 1914 was assumed by the 
ermitage chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution in Memphis. Arrangements 
were made for the continuance of the work during the summer of 1915, without expense to 
the federation. Similar arrangements have been made for the summer of 1916. 

Influenced by the results of this work, and at the earnest request of Miss Margaret Henry 
and Mrs. Charles A. Perkins, the Massachusetts Federation of Women’s Clubs began a simi¬ 
lar settlement in Happy Y alley, Tenn., in the summer of 1905, which they continued till the 
summer of 1914, when it was merged into the public school. They helped build a teacher’s 
cottage and have paid the salary of two workers ever since that time. During these ten 
years the Massachusetts Federation has expended $1,617.47 on this work in Happy Valley. 

In 1906 the Federation of Tennessee entered the Greenbrier Valley in Sevier county, 
and sent two workers there. The people of this valley built a two-room log cabin, deeding 
the land to the Federation, and in June of that year two good workers were sent. The 
needs were about the same as were those in Walker’s Y’alley, and it was the same story 
of real home life coming in contact with the lives of the people, whereby great good was 
accomplished. 


In 1910 it was decided to ask the county school board to co-operate with the Federation 
committee, and employ their summer school teacher, Miss Pearl Hastings, for the public 
school. The county superintendent, Mr. James Keeble, did so, and was much pleased with 
the result—a fine school being taught throughout the summer and fall of 1910. 

The crowning event of that year was a big Christmas tree—the first ever seen in that 
valley. Every man, woman and child was well remembered. Miss Hastings taught this 
valley school for five years, and it can certainly be said of her that her works do follow 
her, as is evidenced by the good that she accomplished. But it was deemed best, in 1913, 
to move this work to Elkmont, about eight miles farther up the mountain, toward the lum¬ 
ber camps. The school in this locality was opened June 14th, 1913. Here the Federation 
committee had succeeded in getting the local school director to hire the summer school 
teacher for the county school, and a settlement worker was employed to work with her until 
the school closed in December. Both did excellent work. 

As this was the first year of the settlement in this locality the workers were obliged to get 
acquainted with the people, and explain the character of the work which they proposed to do. 
They visited all the families in the little group of lumber camp employes, as well as those 
living on the mountain sides, making in the first two months over one hundred visits. 

Miss Nellie Duncan, the school teacher, had an enrollment of forty-six—twenty-nine 
boys and seventeen girls—at the end of two months; the average attendance being thirty- 
four. 


YVe must remember that all the mountain schools are ungraded, while the subjects taught 
are usually some of those found in all of the seven grades of the city schools. Miss Duncan 
in her report says: “Time was taken for nature study, story telling and special reading 
which proved both enjoyable and beneficial to the children. During our special reading 
periods, such books as Black Beauty, Robinson Crusoe, Irving’s Sketch Book and Hawthorne’s 
Short Stories were read aloud and discussed. School was opened each morning with devo¬ 
tional services. These consisted of scripture reading, reciting memory verses, singing and 
prayers. Some of the children had their first opportunity of learning the Lord’s prayer. 
The twenty-third Psalm, the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes were also memorized. 
The little folding organ was an indispensable aid in these exercises. Besides the sacred 
songs many other old familiar tunes were learned. Each Friday afternoon was devoted 
to the speaking of pieces, music, spelling contests and occasionally question boxes.” 


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The summer session closed August 1st, but the day school was continued by Miss Dun¬ 
can, who was supported by the county board of education. 

The school, however, was still kept in touch with the Federation, as the pupils attended 
cooking and sewing classes taught by the settlement worker, Miss Mayme Parrott. These 
classes were of great benefit to the children who were much interested in them. On Wednes¬ 
day evenings, socials were held in the little settlement cottage, and on Sundays, both work¬ 
ers assisted in the Sunday school. The work ended with the closing of the county school on 
December 22, when an entertainment was given by the school children and some of the moun¬ 
tain settlement committee living in Knoxville went up and prepared a Christmas tree, taking 
dolls and presents, given by Ossoli Circle, the dolls having been dressed most neatly and 
handsomely by members of the domestic science class in the University of Tennessee. Miss 
Duncan further says: “I found the children very bright and susceptible. All were eager 
to learn and zealous for more knowledge. On the whole the movement seemed to be success¬ 
ful in every way, and if continued will prove very beneficial to the community. They are 
awake to their needs and will grasp at every opportunity for improvement.” 

Among those who have summer homes at Elkmont, is Mrs. George W. Denney, presi¬ 
dent of the State Federation, and she lent her assistance and influence toward making the 
settlement work a success. 

In June, 1914, Mr. W. B. Townsend, president of the Little River Lumber Company, 
gave the Federation a quarter of an acre of land near the school house in Elkmont, on which 
the Federation erected a settlement house. Mr. Townsend also gave about one-third of the 
lumber used in the construction of this building. Mr. Townsend and his wife, who is a 
member of the Federation Mountain Settlement Committee, have ever been most helpful 
friends to the work, extending many courtesies to the teachers. As the workers have come 
and gone to their respective valleys, he has put engines, logging trains and flat cars at their 
disposal for the conveying of themselves, their household goods and baggage to the point 
nearest to their work. The Little River Railroad Company has carried all freight for this 
work, free of charge. Mr. W. P. Hood, superintendent of the Maryville branch of the South¬ 
ern Railway, has granted the courtesies of that road also. 

The new settlement house in Elkmont is most comfortable, and is well arranged for 
carrying on the work. It was furnished almost entirely by members of the Appalachian Club, 
an organization for the most part composed of Knoxville people, which has its club home 
in the mountains near Elkmont. The board of directors of the club gave a piano to the set¬ 
tlement house which has proven a source of great pleasure. Each Wednesday night mus- 
icales have been conducted in which the people of the community have actively participated. 
Many articles of china, kitchen utensils, towels, etc., were also contributed by the club s 
members, and two ladies identified with the club, Mrs. W. H. Barker of Memphis, a member of 
the Nineteenth Century Club, and Mrs. W. T. Kennedy of Knoxville, arranged an entertain¬ 
ment at the club house, which netted forty dollars, which sum was applied to the salary 
of the domestic science teacher employed in the settlement school. 

The work here, during the summer and fall of 1914, was similar in character to that of 
the preceding vear. In addition to the regular workers, Mrs. Lena Warner, a Red Cioss 
nurse, was employed to visit the homes and give her services where it was deemed necessary. 

In the summer of 1913, a summer school was maintained at Coal Pit, one of the most 
needy places in Blount county. It is eight miles from the railroad, and is a locality wholly 
lacking in those influences, which tend to the betterment ot a community along the lines of 
education and morality. Lack of funds prevented a resumption of this work the next summer. 

At the Federation meeting in Pulaski, when it was decided to discontinue the work in 
Walker’s Valley, it was voted to undertake a new school in Blount county, at Rocky 
Branch, which is situated near the base of Mt. Nebo, in the Chilhowee range. The supeiin¬ 
tended of schools, Mr. H. C. McCall, co-operated with the Mountain Settlement Committee, 
and allowed them to select the public school teacher. 

A cottage was then rented in the neighborhood of the school house, and a teacher, Miss 
Florence French, and a settlement worker, Mrs. Sarah Hood, were employed. Their first work 
in coming into the district was to improve their place of abode. After transforming their 
own house, by means of soap and water, paint and paper, they turned their attention to the 
school house—one of the most neglected in the county. The co-operation of the boys and 
girls was enlisted in cleaning the room, and patching up the rickety seats until better ones 
could he secured. The men in the neighborhood contributed a day’s labor toward clean¬ 
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beginning, the school had a good attendance, and classes in sewing were organized. Enter¬ 
tainments to interest the pupils and their parents were given at the school house. The pro¬ 
gram, on two occasions, was presented by the children, while on one evening, a song reci¬ 
tal was given by students from Maryville college. On October 23rd, the whole country 
side came to witness the ceremony of raising a beautiful flag, the gift of the Woman’s 
Relief Corps ot Knoxville. Practical talks on farm improvement were made in the morning, 
and after lunch the children presented a program of patriotic songs and exercises. These 
same workers were employed here in 1915. 

The people in this locality have proved responsive and appreciative of the work; they 
have contributed toward lights, and better seats for the school house. The results were so 
encouraging that a cottage, costing about $400 was built by the Federation in this section in 
the winter of 1915-16. It is situated near the school house and is occupied by the settlement 
worker, Mrs. Sarah H. Hood. Mrs. Julia Calloway gave $55 toward a part of the lumber used 
in the building of the cottage, while some of the men in the neighborhood showed their 
interest by contributing labor. 

Seven miles from Bald Mountain in Unicoi county, in the extreme eastern part of the state, 
runs the River Spivey, on whose banks is situated the little hamlet known as Mountain Dale. 
Here is located the settlement work, begun in 1907, and supported by the Women’s Clubs of 
East Tennessee. 

Mrs. Charles A. Perkins describes her first trip to this region as follows: 

“Last October, I found myself at Erwin, the railroad station, from which a road leads 
up through the foothills, over the mountain sides, and at times along the bed of a stream for 
a distance of twelve miles, to this little hamlet. This road was so rough that on my return 
I chose a seven-mile ride on horseback down the mountain trail to the railroad station at 
Unaka Springs. At the other end of the journey I found a four-room cottage, prettily located 
under some tall pines. This is a boarded house, built mostly by the people themselves, that 
they may have a home for their teacher and settlement worker. They gave the land and 
deeded it to the Federation. 

On the other side of the brook, fifty yards distant, is the school house, rude and not very 
attractive in its appearance. Within a radius of two miles are twenty houses, all built of 
logs, except one, and in these homes live 150 persons.’ 

Previous to 1912, the work was carried on in the summer only, but at that time the 
board of education of Unicoi county engaged for the public school, the teacher who had 
taught the Federation school in the summer. The settlement worker who had been employed 
in the summer was continued as long as the county school was in session. 

The teacher, Miss Rowland, writes thus: “We arrived at Unaka Springs on June 14, but 
found no one to meet us. While we were discussing the possibility of walking seven miles 
up the mountain to Spivey, we saw one of the men from that place coming to conduct us. We 
mounted the horses that he had brought down for our use, and our trunk was placed on his 
sled, which was drawn by an ox. The ride up the mountain was delightful, and the people 
welcomed us most heartily. 

“We soon had the cottage and school house in readiness. For the first two months of 
school I was paid by the Club Women, and then the county superintendent engaged me for 
the term of four months, which was really a continuation of the other. The enrollment was 
sixty—thirty-three girls and twenty-seven boys. 

“The school was not well graded, but a few of the pupils were fitted to enter the prepar¬ 
atory department of Maryville college, and one of them did so. We had an entertainment at 
the close of each term and one at Christmas. 

“There was no minister within ten miles of Mountain Dale, but one came over each Fri¬ 
day night when the weather permitted, and held a meeting. All other religious services were 
conducted by my associate, Miss McPheeters, and myself. 

“On Sundays we had a Sabbath school, followed by a song service, and another serv¬ 
ice, in the evening. During the week we had a prayer meeting, also a class of mothers whom 
we taught to read and write, and enrolled eighteen girls in a sewing club, where the 
work consisted of plain dress-making, cutting and fitting, making plain hats, and doing some 
embroidery. We visited the homes, treated and cared for the sick, and conducted one 
funeral.” 

The superintendent of the county expresses the highest satisfaction with the teachei 
and settlement worker for the winter of 1914-15, Miss Nannie V. Brown, and gives her esti¬ 
mate of the work that the Federation is doing there in these words, “I am glad to see the 
good work you are doing. It is a great thing for these people.” 


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In addition to the domestic science classes conducted in the fall by this teacher, she 
had also a girl’s canning club, and each girl has staked out a plat of ground for next sum¬ 
mer, where she will raise her tomatoes, beans and corn for canning. 

Through the influence of Miss Brown, an up-to-date school house has been completed. 
At Christmas, the children made galax and holly wreaths, sending them to Johnson City, 
where they were sold, and the money is to be used for the purchase of seats for the new 
building. A Social Betterment Club has been organized “to look after the sick and needy, 
help the weak, and repeat no gossip.” 

Thus great progress has been made in the work of this settlement during the past year. 

In tact, success has characterized the entire mountain settlement work of the Federa¬ 
tion. During the thirteen years it has grown until its influence is far-reaching, and it has 
gradually assumed an importance which the most prophetic eye could not foresee at the Har- 
riman convention in 1901. 

There has been contributed to the work through these years from individuals and organi¬ 
zations $6,932.74. Women’s clubs, merchants and other friends have sent boxes of sup¬ 
plies to the settlement workers, furniture for the houses, clothing for the people of the differ¬ 
ent localities, Christmas gifts and money, all of which have been most acceptable, and for 
which the Federation committee, as well as the workers have ever been most grateful. 

The question is sometimes asked: “Are these children appreciative of books?” One 
day a club woman visited a home on the mountain side, and a little girl in the family proudly 
pointed to a shelf containing ten or twelve books and said: “Reckon I has one of ’bout 
every kind that’s made.” As Columbus thanked the carved stick, which was to him a sign of 
land, so will these unfavored ones be grateful for even the stray bits of knowledge which 
introduce them to a world of pleasure and profit. 

The teachers in the mountain schools are a unit in their testimony as to the brightness 
and ability of their pupils. “These young people yearn after knowledge, because the best 
instruction has been so long denied them. They show a dauntless courage in struggling after 
an education that those in more favored circumstances might do well to emulate.” In many 
city churches there are beautiful memorial windows that cost thousands of dollars. It is 
right that the costly and beautiful should be consecrated to the worship of God. 

In the Southern mountains God has other temples, not made with hands. One young 
mountain girl, going back for the first time from Maryville college, said that she never knew 
before how dark it was in the valley without windows or lamps. 

More and more, as her education advances, will she become aware of the fact that her 
people need “new windows of the soul,” through which they may look out upon life, and 
see it purified and glorified. 

The question of the education of our mountaineers has become more than a problem of 
an isolated community. It is an emergency problem because the twentieth century is push¬ 
ing into the coves and valleys with all its evils. 

Rural life in its concentrated form is found among the mountains, and the people should 
have a live social settlement ideal. They also need religious life of the unsectarian kind. 

They have had no one to pass the torch of knowledge on to them, as it has been handed 
down to later generations. They have native stores of thought and powers of action, if only 
the right incentive is used to draw them forth. 

The mountaineers themselves are the heritage of the nation, and their people are des¬ 
tined to be just as much the backbone of the social, moral and political life of this state as 
the mountains that shelter them are the rocky ribs of its geographical body. 

The Women’s clubs have been well repaid for all the time and money expended, for they 
have been instrumental in giving sight to eyes which had not been able to see the truth, 
hearing to ears which had no opportunity to receive it, and speech to mouths which had noth¬ 
ing to tell. 

The settlement work has been successful because the club women of Tennessee have 
remembered their Federation motto: “Unity of Purpose;” have remembered the splendid 
Scotch-Irish ancestry of the mountaineers; have remembered how, in the pioneer days of the 
Revolution, the mountaineers made history for the nation. Now, in an hour ot weakness, 
born of isolation and neglect, their descendants are well worthy of every effort that is 
put forth to make history for them, so that they may come into their rightful heritage 
of religion, learning and liberty. 


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JflrS. (^utlforb ©ublep 

of Nashville. 

Anne Dallas was born at Nashville, Tennessee, and was graduated from Ward Seminary. She married 
Guilford Dudley, and, although one of the most active club women in the State of Tennessee, she writes her 
title proudly, “Home-Maker.” She is a member of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs, the Centennial 
Club, and holds the office of Tennessee State President of one of the two Equal Suffrage Associations. 

During the four years in which she served as President of the Nashville Equal Suffrage League, the 
membership increased from nine charter members to five thousand enrolled members. The amendment to the 
State Constitution, giving equal suffrage to women, passed the first Legislature in 1915. Mrs. Dudley was 
State Legislative Chairman of her Association at the time, and in charge of the work at the Capitol. 

During her administration as State President, the Democratic and Republican parties, at their respective 
State Conventions, put equal suffrage planks into their party platform in 1916. 

Mrs. Dudley spoke before the Executive Committees of both parties in January, and later in May, before 
both committees on platform. It is considered very significant that the two dominant parties in Tennessee 
should have taken this action before the National Conventions had spoken. 

Mrs. Dudley marched in the rain in the famous Chicago Suffrage parade, and was present afterward at 
the hearing granted by the Republican Platform Committee. She later spoke before the Tennessee delegation 
at the St. Louis Democratic Convention. The Tennessee delegation afterward voted solidly for the suffrage 
plank in the Democratic platform, thus placing their state on the honor roll of progress. 


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history of ££>t. Jllary’s on tfje jfflountam 


In the summer of 1888 the Sisters of St. Mary first came to Sewanee mountain to take 
possession of the house we had, the year previous, purchased and remodeled. Soon it was 
the center of life and activity. It was built to accommodate a school of forty-six girls, and 
we rarely allow the number of resident pupils to reach fifty. The course of study in the 
school includes the first two grades of a high school course. We have a very good school library. 
The domestic training is in laundry work, needle work and house work; basketry and weaving 
are taught. The work of St. Mary’s on the Mountain at present consists of four depart¬ 
ments, occupying the school—the convent, the mission rooms, and the crafts house. The 
pupils live in the school building and here provision is made for all that pertains to their 
training and education. At the convent—the sisters’ home—are held the classes of instruc¬ 
tion for baptism, confirmation and first communion. This house is used largely for the 
entertainment of guests interested in the sisters’ mountain work and for retreats for ladies. 
The mission rooms are for the service of the poor. Clothing, house furnishings and medi¬ 
cines are supplied here to the mountain people. The industrial department of the work occu¬ 
pies the crafts house. The industrial classes are not only for the pupils of the school, but 
for the young mountain women of our neighborhood. St. Mary’s is situated on the plateau 
on the top of this vast mountain and around us for a distance of three or four miles live 
hundreds of the mountain people to whom the gospel has been preached and who have 
received some little education; hut off in the mountains, in the coves and valleys, live thous¬ 
ands of the poor, untaught and uncared for. It was to these that our hearts turned long¬ 
ingly and we felt that our mission from God was to them. In a few years we won the con¬ 
fidence and love of the people, but the progress of their improvement and enlightenment 
was so difficult and slow that we began to seek some wise solution of our problem. We 
found it in the opening of a home and school for the young daughters of the people. This 
venture was a success, but the good results were arrived at only through patience and 
suffering. 


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Jilrsi. 3 . Jgapoleon Jfalls; 

of Memphis. 

Mrs. J. Napoleon Falls, who, before her marriage was a member of the aristocratic old Dunn family, is a 
woman whose life is full of deeds of altruism, so quietly done that not even the members of her family begin 
to realize the amount of good she has accomplished. A queenly woman in appearance, regal almost in bear¬ 
ing, she has a heart that feels keenly for humanity. Intolerant of anything savoring of unworthiness, she 
jet finds good in every man. No home is too lowly for her to enter, no life too dark for her to cheer. A 
leader in society, yet at the same time a devoted and charming mother, she has demonstrated to the worlcf 
the fact that society does not callous the heart, nor darken the home. Mrs. Falls abhors publicity of any 
kind save that which directly results in the uplift of woman, for the welfare of young girls has always been 
her special work. It is women like Mrs. Falls who make not only home, but the whole world worth while. 


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jflrs. Haurence 30 . GTpsion 

(Of Knoxville) 


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Haurence 3&. Cpgon 

of Knoxville. 

Betty Humes (McGhee) Tyson, the daughter of Charles McClung McGhee and Cornelia 
Humes (White) McGhee, was born in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, on the 28th of Janu¬ 
ary, 1865. Her ancestors on both sides were among the earliest settlers of Eastern Tennessee, 
and were among the most prominent, cultivated, and influential men and women of the State. 
Her great-great-great-grandfather, James White, on her mother’s side, was the founder of the 
City of Knoxville, and his descendants have retained to this day their position as among the 
foremost people of the State and the South. Her grandfather on her father’s side was a resi¬ 
dent of Monroe County, Tennessee, and was the largest landowner in the State, and her father 
was perhaps the greatest business man that Eastern Tennessee has produced. Mrs. Tyson has 
proven herself a worthy descendant ot her ancestors. She was educated in the private schools 
of Knoxville and graduated at Mrs. Reid’s School in New York City. She was married on 
February 10th, 1886, to Lieut. Laurence D. Tyson, of the United States Army, and a graduate 
of West Point Military Academy. Her husband was stationed for a number of years on the 
frontier where Mrs. Tyson showed, even as a young woman, the mettle of which she was 
made. Although born to every ease and comfort, she was a model of uncomplaining patience 
and bravery in all the trying positions by which she was at times surrounded while her hus¬ 
band was in the army. After a number of years her husband resigned from the army and has 
since been one of the most successful and prominent men of the State. He ottered his services 
when the Spanish-American War broke out and was appointed a Colonel of the 6th U. S. Vol¬ 
unteer Infantry by the President of the United States, and served with much distinction dur¬ 
ing that war, and has held many prominent civic and military positions since. They have two 
children, a son, Charles McGhee Tyson, and a daughter, Isabella McGhee Tyson. Mrs. Tyson 
is a beautiful and cultured woman, with all the delicacy, refinement and taste of the best 
women of the old South. She is one of the tenderest mothers, but at the same time realizes 
that children should be guided and instructed to do the things that make for the best. While 
she is amiability itself, she is nevertheless pre-eminently the Grand Dame, and has made as 
deep an impress on her city as any other woman living in it today. She is honored and loved 
by the people of Knoxville because she is always trying to better civic and social conditions 
in her city, and the people know that she has their interest and welfare at heart. It was through 
her influence and indefatigable energy that the first Woman’s Building in Knoxville was 
erected, and she was the first President of the Knoxville Woman’s Building Board, which was 
the center of Art and Science in Knoxville, and she retained that position for several years, 
until the building was burned down, making a great success of it and giving the work of the 
women of Knoxville a new impetus and one that it has retained to the present day. She 
organized the “City Beautiful League” several years ago, was elected its first President and 
has continued to be its President since. This League has done a wonderful work for the 
city, and has been the principal inspiration for better civic and sanitary and beautifying con¬ 
ditions in Knoxville. 

She was selected to be the Editor-in-Chief for the Woman’s Edition of the Knoxville Sen¬ 
tinel, a great edition of that paper gotten out under the auspices of the City Beautiful League 
a few years ago. This was a great financial and artistic success and netted a handsome sum 
for the League. Mrs. Tyson is a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church, a member of the D. 
A. R., and Colonial Dames. She is a member of the Board of St. John’s Orphanage, and is ever 
ready to do her part in all social and public enterprises. Her home is among the most beauti¬ 
ful and attractive in the South, and there is none where more generous or lavish hospitality is 
constantly dispensed. 


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Jflrsi. Barnes JW. jUcCormacfe 

Eleanor Reid O’Donnell McCormack (Mrs. James M. McCormack), of Memphis, Tennessee, is an excellent 
example of woman’s versatile talent. She is a culinary expert and lyric poet, a garden grubber and a needle 
artist, a molder of public opinion who yet takes counsel of the humblest. She is actively engaged in club work 
from music to marketing, and from the preservation of Revolutionary history to the modern movement of 
votes for women. Mrs. McCormack served as President of the Reethoven Club, a representative music organi¬ 
zation, for three consecutive years; w'as twice elected to the presidency of the Nineteenth Century Club, the 
largest and most influential woman’s club in the South; has served as President of the Tennessee Federation 
of Women’s Clubs, the highest position in club life in the State; was the founder of the Commodore Law¬ 
rence Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution; w r as one of the two women on the state committee for 
the West Tennessee Normal School, and secured the location of that institution for Memphis and Shelby 
County; is the only woman member of the Recreation Commission of the city government; is one of the 
vice-presidents of the city Associated Charities; is secretary of the Walter Malone Memorial Association, 
whose membership includes many of the leading literary people of the nation; as President of the Tennes¬ 
see Equal Suffrage Association she has been identified with the constitutional convention movement and other 
progressive legislation; at the recent Preparedness Conference held at Chattanooga Mrs. McCormack had the 
unique distinction of representing the Mayor of Memphis, mayors being present from more than a hundred 
large cities. Mrs. McCormack is chairman of the entertainment committee which is rendering most praise¬ 
worthy service in caring for the comfort of thousands of troops, both regulars and guardsmen, passing through 
Memphis en route to the Mexican border; through her able management an entirely new plan of patriotism 
has been inaugurated and perfected, each train of troopers being met and officers and privates treated to a 
substantial meal, which means much to men wdio have been traveling for days with rather scant rations; 
soldiers w'ho are today chanting the praise of Mrs. McCormack and her co-workers are from New York, New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, District of Columbia, and other sections. 

Mrs. McCormack is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and an active factor in church and chari¬ 
table work. Is interested in Hospital Nurses’ Association, municipal markets, and the city beautiful move¬ 
ment. 


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)t QTenneggee Jf eberation anb ^egisilation 

By Mrs. Alex Caldwell 
Chairman of Legislation, T. F. W. C. 

legislative measures undertaken by the Tennessee 
Federation of Women’s Clubs during 1913 were a bill 
to remove the disabilities of married women in Tennes¬ 
see, and a bill defining the rights of married women in 
the ownership of property. 

Mrs. A. B. Cooke, president of the Federation, appointed 
Mrs. Alex S. Caldwell chairman of legislation, and her com¬ 
mittee was composed of the following women: Mrs. N. M. 
Whittaker, Chattanooga; Mrs. A. S. Buchanan, Memphis; Mrs. 
Elionor Malloy Gellespie, Fayetteville; Mrs. John Bell Iveeble, 
and Mrs. Ida Clyde Clark, both of Nashville. Mrs. Caldwell, 
with her committee, immediately set to work to familiarize 
the people of the state with the existing laws, to point out 
their injustices, and to suggest a remedy. 

Both of the bills were introduced in the Senate, of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly by 
Senator J. W. C. Church, and in the House by Louis Bejach of Shelby. 

The bill, “to remove the disabilities of married women” provided that a woman had the 
right to acquire, hold, manage, control, use, enjoy and dispose of all property, and to make 
contracts in reference to it and to bind herself personally, and to sue and to be sued as if she 
were not married. “That married women are hereby fully emancipated from all disability on 
account coverture.” This bill passed the senate unanimously, and in the house had only six 
votes against it. There was an amendment allowing a year before it went into effect. It 
became a law January 1st, 1914, and was declared constitutional by the supreme court the 
following summer. 

The second bill concerning “ownership of property,” was never reached by the legisla¬ 
ture, there being other political matters with which they were deeply occupied. The Federa¬ 
tion endorsed the “Vital Statistics” and “Compulsory Education” bills that were passed at this 
time. Mrs. Claude Sullivan, chairman of health, with her committee, gave able assistance to 
the state health department in the passage of the “Vital Statistics” bill. 

Previous to the 1915 legislature, Mrs. George W. Denney, president of the Federation, pre¬ 
sented to her executive board a resolution adopted by Ossoli Circle of Knoxville, that the 
Federation undertake as their legislative work the securing of a vocational school for delin¬ 
quent girls. This was voted on favorably by the board, and their action was confirmed by 
the convention at Pulaski. Mrs. Alex Caldwell, chairman of legislation, directed the prepa¬ 
ration of a bill seeking an appropriation of $50,000 for building purposes, and $125 per capita 
for maintenance. The bill required that the institution should be called The Tennessee Voca¬ 
tional Beformatory for Girls,” that it should be built on the cottage plan and that its supeiin- 
tendent must be a woman. A board of managers was to be appointed by the governoi con¬ 
sisting of five members, two of whom were to be women. 

In order that women could serve on the board, it was necessary that a bill should be 
introduced making women eligible to serve on state, municipal and county boards of educa¬ 
tion. Mrs. Caldwell appointed on the legislative committee women from every club in the 
state, the selection to be made by the presidents of clubs. This made the stiongest commit¬ 
tee possible, and the fine spirit, and splendid co-operation of the entire Federation was 
undoubtedly a large factor in the successful passage of these two bills. Mrs. George W. Den¬ 
ney, Mrs. Claude Sullivan and Mrs. Alex Caldwell attended every session of the legislature 
for six weeks and appeared before every committee that had the bills in charge. 



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Both bills were introduced in the senate by Senator J. W. C. Church, of Maury. In the 
house the Reformatory bill was introduced by Julian Strauss, and the eligibility of women 
on boards by Hoyte Stewart, of Cannon, and Frank West of Knox. The Reformatory bill 
passed both houses, hut was amended in the senate, after it had passed unanimously in the 
house, to reduce the appropriation to $35,000, to put the institution under the “Board of Con¬ 
trol,’ and to pay 50 cents a day to any institution that would care for girls receiving a sen¬ 
tence, until the Reformatory was ready for occupancy. The house concurred in these amend¬ 
ments, and Governor Rye signed the bill and presented the pen to Mrs. Denney, as did the 
speakers of both houses. 

The bill of “Eligibility of Women on Boards” passed in the senate unanimously, but was 
carried in the house by only a majority of two, with a provision that it should not apply to 
counties ot a given population, which debarred Wilson and Warren counties. This act went 
into effect immediately. 

The women are deeply indebted to Senator J. W. C. Church and Representative Strauss 
tor the able manner in which they handled the bills and the courteous hearing given the Fed¬ 
eration by the legislature, as well as the personal assurance of interest from the individual 
members, is highly appreciated. 

Governor Rye appointed Mrs. George W. Denney and Mrs. Alex Caldwell with Messrs. 
F. N. Ogilvie, of Brownsville, and Robert Creighton and George W. Brown, both of Nashville, 
to serve as the hoard of managers of the “Tennessee Reformatory for Girls.” As the bill required 
that the first consideration should be given to cities and counties offering gifts of land as a 
location for the Reformatory, several places were visited that made generous offers, but the 
proposition of Tullahoma was accepted. Here the state will eventually have as fine an insti¬ 
tution for delinquent girls as any that is operated for boys. 

The prospective legislation for 1917 will probably be a larger appropriation for the 
Reformatory for Girls, a bill to wipe out illiteracy in Tennessee, and there is a probability of 
the women urging that they be made co-guardians of their children. 

The women of Tennessee are not only interested in state legislation, but through the 
General Federation having representation on that board of legislation, use their influence in 
Federal matters also. 

The child labor bill, the “National Park Service,” “Vocational Aid,” and “Adult Illit¬ 
eracy” bills, which are pending in Congress, have been endorsed by the women of Tennessee. 


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department of Ctbtl ^erPice Reform 


^^ENNESSEE has no civil service law, but the Tennessee Federation has a department 
III of civil service reform, which is doing splendid work to create an interest in this all- 
important subject. This department was established during the administration of Mrs. 

A. B. Cooke, Mrs. Hickman Price, of Nashville, serving as the first chair¬ 
man. Under her direction much splendid work was accomplished, and many needed 
improvements in various institutions were brought about largely through her efforts. Mrs. 
Percy Finley, of Memphis, followed Mrs. Price and the work continued to become of more 
interest and importance, until under the able chairmanship of Mrs. Henry Posert, of Mem¬ 
phis, this department has become one of the most important in the Federation. 


Mrs. Posert succeeded in awakening an interest in civil service reform through the clubs, 
and whether or not the present generation can he brought to realize the value of civil service 
reform, a good foundation will have been made in teaching the boys and girls its importance. 


The programs along the line of civil service reform have included lectures on the sub¬ 
ject, the offering of prizes to high school students for best essays on such subjects as: 1— 
“History of Civil Service Reform.” 2—“What is Civil Service Reform, and What Can I 
Profit by It?” 3—“What Interest Have I in Civil Service Reform?” 


Within the past two years it has been made possible for women to hold every appointive 
office in the state. The vocational reformatory board has two women members, and there is 
a woman on the state board of charities. In fact, every position in the state is open to women 
except legislative, executive and judicial offices. In Tennessee disability of women has been 
removed in the following positions: To serve as notary public, to testify against her hus¬ 
band and to serve on school boards. 


For the salvation of mankind women will always have to tend the fires of right. No 
one else will. Therefore they should be vitally interested. 


department of Snbustrial Conbtttons 


ITH so many women and children forced into the industrial world, club women have 
taken it upon themselves to look to their welfare. State federations have created 
industrial and social conditions departments, and their object is to improve the con¬ 
ditions surrounding two million children who toil, and the thousands upon thousands 
of women who have entered the industrial world. 



The department of industrial and social conditions of the Tennessee Federation has, 
since its inception, urged the use of school houses as social centers. It lends its influence 
to every movement which will bring about better living conditions and it tries in every way 
to aid the women and children wage earners. 

It was largely through the efforts of Mrs. A. M. Trawaick, of Nashville, that the early 
shopping idea at the Christmas season became a state-wide movement. She also advocated 
through the clubs, the weekly half-holiday for salespeople during the summei months, and 
assisted in the movement for shorter hours for working women. 

Under the chairmanship of Mrs. M. N. Whittaker, of Chattanooga, this department is now 
lending its best efforts toward better housing. This does not apply to the homes alone but 
also to “better housing” during working hours. The chairman of this department is ever 
mindful of conditions under which the women and children work, and is constantly on the 
alert to improve them. 

Better laws are being enacted by each legislature through the efforts of club women, and 
the manufacturers are lending their every effort in improving conditions. 


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®be Home for Sncurables; 


Home for Incurables is a monument to the devotion and efficiency of the King’s 
■ I Daughters of Tennessee. The motives which inspired its inception, the means used to 
secure the funds for its erection and maintenance and the consummate ability with 
which it is managed and conducted, all reflects the highest credit upon the noble band 
of Tennessee women, who are doing such splendid work for stricken humanity. 


The movement originated with the King’s Daughters of Shelby County, and through 
their initiative was adopted as the state-wide work of the King’s Daughters at the State con¬ 
vention of the organization held in Columbia, Tenn., in May, 1905, and the work of solicita¬ 
tion was carried on continuously; hut not until December, 1907, was a charter for the institu¬ 
tion obtained. 


When the establishment of the institution was first determined on, it was decided that 

the Home should be located in the Tennessee city raising the most initial funds. As Mem¬ 

phis won this distinction, in the preliminary campaigns for funds, this city was chosen as 
the site of the Home. 

The property finally selected is situated at 1467 MeLemore Avenue. It has a frontage of 

300 feet on MeLemore and runs back over 700 feet, affording ample room for the needs of 

the institution. The street cars run in front of the door and it is in a fine residence section of 
the city. 

The first building used was a commodious private residence, remodeled to meet the wants 
of the patients. The original price was $17,500.00, which was very reasonable, considering 
the character of the property. 

This refuge for the Incurables was opened for patients March 1st, 1908; patients begin¬ 
ning at once to make application for refuge, and it soon became necessary to enlarge the build¬ 
ing. In 1912 the original building (and the annex) were moved and the handsome structure 
shown in the picture at the top of page was built. There are at this time fifty inmates, and 
still there is a demand for more room. 

The property is conservatively estimated to be worth $75,000.00. It has been purchased 
and improved partly by money secured by contributions and partly by a moderate bond issue. 
A large part of the money for the support of the Home has been raised by “Tag Day” contri¬ 
butions. One day out of every year is set aside as “Tag Day” in the various cities of the 
state, and from the funds secured on that day, the Home is principally supported. Funds are 
raised, however, in various other ways by the King’s Daughters, and the good work is carried 
on from year to year with wonderful success. 


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GTenneggee Prancf) of tfje Jfnternattonal €>rber 
of tf )t king’s 3Bausfttersi anb ii>ons; 

Elizabeth M. Norvell. 


Order of the King’s Daughters was organized in January, 1886, in New York City, 
when ten devoted women of several Christian denominations, led by Mrs. Margaret 
Bottome, met together and discussed plans for the deepening of their own spiritual lives 
and the spread of Christian activities. Their idea at first was to organize circles of ten 
women to a circle who should meet together at stated times for Bible study and devotions, and 
then plan to go forth from day to day in an unostentatious way and relieve the necessities of 
any who might need help, encouragement, or comfort. The basic idea was worship and 
service. The little silver Maltese Cross with the letters I. H. N. (In His Name) was adopted 
as the Badge of the Order, and the motto “Not to be ministered unto but to minister.” So 
impressed were those who came in contact with these earnest Christian women as they went 
about ministering to the wants of others “In His Name,” that the organization grew by leaps 
and bounds, and the work spread into the adjoining cities and states, then across the seas, 
until now, thirty years after, we find it an International Organization with headcpiarters in 
New r York City, with branches in thirty-five states, seven provinces of Canada and Nova 
Scotia, and independent circles in Hawaii, Japan, China, Siam, Korea, Bahama, Egypt, Smyrna, 
Turkey, England, and some of the European countries. 


We who have always lived in Christian lands and enjoyed the many blessings of such a 
civilization can scarcely estimate what the Order means to these dear women in the foreign 
fields. To many of these dear Sisters the little circles bring the first thought of united effort; 
of social life; the interchange of thoughts and aims which they little dreamed they had in 
their own souls until asked to look up and out and to lend-a-hand. One of our American 
sisters who has been privileged to go over the Orient tells us that unless w r e have seen it we 
will never know what it means to these women to call themselves “The King’s Daughters.” 
Boyalty counts for much in those far away lands. Dignity is added and self-respect 
(unknown quantities before) to the humblest life; and the sweet lesson of service which 
levels somewhat the hard lines of caste, brings soul to soul in a new and beautiful rela¬ 
tion. We who have always been used to these ways may not fathom the marvel and joy 
of it all. 

In our own State of Tennessee, circles were formed in 1887, in Nashville, Memphis, and 
possibly some of the other towns, but it w r as not until the circles throughout the State feder¬ 
ated and thus united became known as the Tennessee Branch of the International Order of 
The King’s Daughters. Mrs. R. W. Mitchell, of Memphis, was our first Branch President, with 
Mrs. A. S. Buchanan as Recording Secretary, Mrs. Hardin Figures, Mrs. W. B. Wooldridge, 
Mrs. Frank Everett, Mrs. Frederick Hardy and Mrs. E. Dan Smith, of Maury County, Mrs. 
Eggleston, of Williamson County, Mrs. Andrew Allison, Mrs. A. J. Dyer, Mrs. Win. Hume, 
Miss Fanny Battle, Mrs. A. B. Hill, Mrs. J. Y. Crawford, Mrs. Jno. Aust, Mrs. E. R. Doolittle, 
Mrs. P. M. Tamble, Mrs. W. E. Norvell, Mrs. Robert Weakley, and the late Mrs. W. M. Wool- 
wine, and Miss Mary Goodwyn, of Nashville, Mrs. Louis Wood, Mrs. Ludie Cross, Mrs. Frank 
Snadon, Mrs. Lupton, and Mrs. W. M. Daniel, of Clarksville, Mrs. R. W. Mitchell, Miss Cary 
Watkins, Mrs. Buddeke, Mrs. Rebie McNeil, Mrs. Wharton Jones, Mrs. J. M. McCormack, of 
Memphis, Mrs. J. O. Carter, Mrs. Robert Abernathy, and Mrs. J. H. Zucarello, have all been 
State officers in the twenty-one years we have been organized, giving unstintingly of their 
time and talents to the work. 

It is worth while to mention some of the activities the circles are engaged in. One of 
the Nashville circles maintains a Home for blind girls, and it is truly a home in every sense 
of the word; another for twenty-one years has paid a salary to a nurse who has gone in and 
out among the sick poor of the city, and in her daily ministrations to them has averaged 


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over 2,000 visits a year. Another circle is very active in helping to maintain the Fresh Air 
Camp at Craggie Hope; the others do general charity, carrying sunshine with the material 
aid rendered. The Columbia Circle built at a cost of $16,000 a modern Hospital, the only 
one in the County. Mt. Pleasant Circle has for years been getting the neglected poor children 
of the town and surrounding country to meet once a week for industrial training and recently 
the circle has built a suitable house on a lot donated by one of its faithful members, and is 
doing a splendid w ork among the boys and girls who would otherwise grow T up on the streets 
untaught and uncared for. In Memphis and Clarksville, the circles contribute to all the chari¬ 
ties of their respective cities, while in Memphis some of the circles help to maintain homes 
tor aged women and orphan children. In addition to these several lines of work carried on 
separately by the several circles, they are all united together to support as their State work a 
Home for Incurables, at Memphis, the only Home of its kind in the State. It receives no aid 
from our State Legislature and is entirely dependent on the circles and the money obtained 
from “Tag Day,” held once each year in Memphis and Nashville. At first, nine years ago, 
w r e opened the Home for Incurables in a dwelling house with accommodation for about ten 
patients. The need was great and the building soon had to be enlarged. Four years ago 
bonds were issued and $30,000 secured thereby for the further enlargement of the Home. 
Today we have a splendid property w r ith seven acres of ground, a three-story building with 
elevators and every modern convenience and accommodation for one hundred patients. The 
men, women and children in there receive every attention at the hands of these devoted 
King’s Daughters, free medical services from a staff of the best physicians of Memphis,— 
patients are there from all over the State, and the Home is run at an expense of about $10,000 
a year. Children with bone tuberculosis are given particular attention by Dr. Campbell, of 
Memphis. We are endeavoring to retire the bond issue and therefore w r e feel it necessary to 
come before the public once a year and standing on the street, forgetful of self, give every 
man, woman and child an opportunity to help in this great work for the Master. 

The names of Miss Cary Watkins, Mrs. R. H. Vance, Mrs. Mary Abbey, Mrs. J. H. Lump¬ 
kin, Mrs. Hugh Bedford, Mrs. B. R. Henderson, Mrs. Maria Griffin, Mrs. Wm. Floyd, Mrs. 
A. C. Floyd, Mrs. P. C. Ivnowlton, Mrs. Neely, of Memphis, and Mrs. W. E. Norvell, of Nash¬ 
ville, and a host of others, are inseparably linked with the establishment and management of 
The King’s Daughters’ Home for Incurables where the lives of the sad and suffering are 
cheered and comforted until the workers realize in a measure the joy of love-service as 
expressed by Mrs. Browning when she wrote: 


The sweetest lives are those to duty wed. 

Whose deeds both great and small 

Are close knit strands of an unbroken thread. 

Where love ennobles all. 

The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells— 
The book of life the shining record tells. 

Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes 
After its own life working. A child’s kiss 
Set on thy singing lips shall make thee glad. 

A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong. 
Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense 
Of service which thou renderest. 


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JflrS. iEtcljarb <§orbon talker 

Was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Judge John A. Nooe, and Mrs. Harriet Crowdus Nooe. 
Judge Nooe was a descendant of the Richards, Triplett, Stone, Barton and other prominent Virginia fam¬ 
ilies, and was a noted lawyer and jurist. Mrs. Nooe’s familj' was prominent in Kentucky and Tennessee. 
The Stevensons, Foggs and Sharps w'ere her ancestors. 

Mrs. Walker was educated at Mademoiselle Devine’s school in Paris, France, of which Miss Emily V. 
Mason of Virginia was associate head. When very young she was presented at the Italian court, chaper¬ 
oned by Madame La Countess de Charette, nee, Antoinette Polk. Her younger life was spent in Memphis 
and the east. The family finally settled in Louisville. Even in her gayest days, she found time for works 
of charitj\ When she married and returned to Memphis, she naturally took up the same lines, and is now 
treasurer of the Nineteenth Century Club, vice-chairman of the travel class, and one of the leaders of the 
Memphis branch of the Alliance Francaise, and was general chairman for the King’s Daughters, on Tag 
Day, of 1915, where one of the largest sums that was ever raised in one day was realized. 


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public $>ealtf) department of tfje fICennessee Jfeberation 

By Mrs. S. C. Crockett, 

Ex-Chairman Public Health, General Federation of Women’s Clubs. 


3 N 1908 Mrs. Benton McMillin, president of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs, 
formed a public health department in response to a request from the General Federation 
of Women’s Clubs. This action was in line with the policies of State Federations all 
over the country, desiring to follow the lead of the national organization, and thus to 
contribute to unity of purpose and power of achievement. 


The first chairman of this department was Mrs. S. S. Crockett, of Nashville; Dr. Elizabeth 
Kane, of Memphis, was the second chairman; Mrs. Claude D. Sullivan, of Nashville, the third, 
and Mrs. K. P. Jones, of Maryville, the fourth and present incumbent (April, 1916). 

The organization of the department throughout the state is worthy of especial emphasis. 
The plan adopted was that of appointing a health chairman for each congressional district 
in the state, one for each county, and one for each club. In cities where there were a number 
of clubs, the health chairmen of the respective clubs “got together,” each assuming some 
part of the health campaign, each club making of itself a cog in the big wheel of the Federa¬ 
tion’s health activities. 


The first work for health by both state and national Federation was that of Anti-Tuber¬ 
culosis. In these pioneer years the question was asked by a few clubs: “Is this not out of 
our line?” “We exist for self-improvement, why should we be asked to participate in this 
unesthetic crusade?” The following extract from the first circular sent out by the health 
department gives the answer, in part, to these questions: 

(1) Because Consumption kills yearly more people than all the other contagious dis¬ 
eases put together. 

(2) Because Tennessee stands, next to California, at the head of the mortality list. 

(3) Because Consumption is communicable, curable and above all, preventable. 

(4) Because Consumption is a house disease and women are responsible for the care of 
their individual homes and largely for that broader home, the community in which they 
live and bring up their children. 

(5) Because the death rate has been wonderfully decreased where organized effort has 
been made. 

(6) Because of all these incontrovertible facts, we women of Tennessee feel that while 
we would study and improve our minds, we only do it in order that we may pass on the good 
gifts of civilization in the ratio that we have enjoyed them, and that we must perforce “trans¬ 
late vision into service.” 

That this argument was convincing, or that anti-tuberculosis work was in the air, is 
proven by the sense of surprise one now feels in recalling that anyone ever objected to join¬ 
ing in the warfare against the Great White Plague. 

Other departments of the Federation complained of lack of recruits, of no response from 
the clubs. The health chairmen have had only gratitude to express to the clubs and club 
women of the state. 

So hearty was the response that the civic and health departments, joining forces in 1908 
and 1909, earned several thousand dollars from the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals. This 
they devoted to an educational campaign for the cure and prevention of tuberculosis. They 
made an exhibit for the state fair and sent three traveling exhibits to county fairs, which was 
said by a representative of the national association to have been equaled in character and 
extent only by the great New York county Fair exhibitions. Tuberculosis exhibits were made 
individually by the chairmen of Sumner, Lincoln and Hickman counties, and circulated with 
marked success. 


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The departments of civics and health also secured the services of an expert, Mrs. Caro¬ 
line Bartlett-Crane, to make a sanitary survey of Chattanooga and Nashville, and to make 
an address at the state convention in 1910 . 

After the formation of a State Anti-Tuberculosis League, it was thought best to co-ope¬ 
rate with that body, rather than to initiate movements in the tuberculosis crusade, so that the 
efforts of the health department were turned in other directions. 

About this time, too, the health department of the General Federation created sub-depart¬ 
ments of child hygiene, food sanitation and social hygiene. The Tennessee Federation fol¬ 
lowed this lead and did excellent work along these lines. 

Dr. R. S. Yarros, of Chicago, a very brilliant lecturer on social hygiene, was brought on 
to a state convention and for other lectures in the state. A creditable achievement in this 
phase of health work was the passage of a bill looking toward the prevention of infantile 
blindness, largely through the efforts of the Federation health department. 

Club health workers participated in the passage of a bill for a uniform vital statistics 
law, bringing on Miss Julia C. Lathrop, chief of the Federal Children’s Bureau, for lectures 
on this subject. When revocation of this law was threatened at a following legislature club 
women were very active in keeping this important statute on the books of the state’s laws. 

Health chairmen have secured the co-operation of state health officials in filling lecture 
engagements, and spreading the gospel of hygienic living over the state, and valiant work for 
a national health service was carried on for several years. 

A state health day in schools is an established custom, thanks to the efforts of club 
women. Medical inspection has been brought about in many of the larger cities, dissemina¬ 
tion of information concerning hookworm, anti-fly campaigns, general clean-up campaigns, 
health programs in clubs — all these, and much besides have been initiated, fostered and 
pushed to completion by the efforts of state health chairmen, members of their committees 
and their co-workers in the various clubs of the state. Individual clubs have taken care of 
tuberculosis patients in hospitals; they have given prizes for cleanliness in colored homes; 
they have erected bubble fountains in schools, parks and public buildings; they have brought 
about sanitary reforms in jails and work-houses; they have supported visiting nurses; they 
have instituted sanitary reforms in markets and food supply shops; they have influenced 
school authorities to reform methods of cleaning—all these and many more activities on the 
part of Tennessee Club women cause the writer to believe that they merit in some degree, at 
least, the praise that was given to the club women of the United States by Dr. E. T. Devine 
at the Chicago Biennial, when he said: 

“I have not the slightest doubt that our food is purer, that the bodies of our school chil¬ 
dren are stronger, that the death rate from tuberculosis is lower, that births and deaths are 
more accurately reported, that an adequate national health service is nearer, and that a health 
marriage certificate is much more probable because of the work which has been accomplished 
by the various State Federations of Women’s Clubs.” 


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OT content with teaching the mountain women and girls, by means of its settlement 
house, how to cook, how to sew and how to make useful articles with the means at 
their command, the Tennessee Federation, in co-operation with Lena A. Warner, R. 
N., established at its Elkmont settlement house the past year, a work intensely prac¬ 
tical and one that bore great fruit. 

The simplest lessons in sanitation are unknown in the remote mountain districts. The 
doctor is sent for on only the rarest occasions, for possibly he has miles and miles to ride 
over almost impassable roads, from the little town where he has his office. What a wonder¬ 
ful work Mrs. Warner has done among the mountaineers of the Elkmont region can well be 
imagined, for she has enjoyed her experiences, she loves to help others, and nothing has 
deterred her from visiting all the families that she could possibly reach. 

Mrs. Warner is president of the State Board of Examiners of Nurses for Tennessee, Sec¬ 
retary of the National Red Cross Nursing Service for Tennessee, member of the Board of 
Directors of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and Chairman of the Regis¬ 
tration Committee for West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ken¬ 
tucky, Tennessee and Louisiana. She has spent years and years in nursing and in doing 
good for others. 

Asked by the President of the Federation to write briefly of her work among the moun¬ 
tain people she prepared the following condensed report: 

Your effort to combine Public Health Nursing with the work of the State Federation of 
Women’s Clubs, undertaken in the heart of the great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, 
has, beyond doubt, borne good friut in the past six months. In justice to the interest you 
have manifested, I feel it is incumbent upon me to review with a condensed outline of the 
progress made so far. 


“The first few r weeks at Elkmont I passed studying the people, their surroundings, etc. I 
soon observed they w r ere slow to make friends, and eyed with suspicion strangers; indepen- 
ent, sensitive, secretive, suspicious and yet most loyal. An opportunity at last came to win 
their confidence, and since that time, have considered my efforts worth while. 


“They have been deprived, through unavoidable conditions, of almost all the good things 
derived through the progress of civilization, still they are our true American citizens, even 
to the sixth generation scattered throughout the coves of these beautiful mountains. Only a 
few 7 days ago I held in my hand an old rifle that did service under Sevier at Kings Mountain 
and Jackson at New 7 Orleans. I believe you w 7 ell know the history of their ancestors is handed 
down from generation to generation by w r ord of mouth. 

“During my stay in the mountains I visited the homes of 153 families, my district over 
Sevier county as far as I could walk in one day. On a few occasions I have gone beyond this, 
when a horse for transportation w r as furnished by the mountaineer. I inspected the school 
at your Settlement House and found only tw r o out of the forty (as w r e w 7 ould express it) phy¬ 
sically well developed. The medical and surgical supplies you sent me rendered good serv¬ 
ice there. Their physical defects were attributed to their mode of living, poor ventilation, 
poorlv cooked foods. They appeared to me as living examples of the survival of the fittest, 
for indeed the remnants of their race are still in evidence, their present constitutions being 
extensively preserved by the great health-giving ozone of the mountains. They have been 
deprived of the knowledge and value of a mental and physically developed body, our greatest 
asset in efficient citizenship. 

“Through the scientific teaching of Public Health Nursing, we are taught to do the things 
our hands, heads and hearts find to do. My work with you has been most varied, visiting 
the sick, both young and old, pulling teeth, cleaning house, doing carpenter work, on down 
to the spraying of apple trees—every day giving us that ‘knowledge which passes all under¬ 
standing,’ of knowing w 7 e are doing something toward the uplifting of a people so long neg¬ 
lected, as in truth we are ‘Our brother’s keeper.’ ” 


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Mississippi has given to Tennessee many gifted and beau¬ 
tiful women, but not one has done more actual good and at 
the same time kept up faithfully all other affiliations than 
Mrs. Kathryn Kersh Schulken. Among offices held are the 
following: Superintendent of Nurses’ Associated Charities, 
member National Organization of Public Health, member of 
Registered Nurses’ Association of Tennessee and of Memphis 
Equal Suffrage League, vice-president of Registered Nurses’ 
Association of Tennessee, member of State Examining Board; 
took leading part in securing municipal Children’s Hospital, 
and Bachelors’ Baby Hospital; is intensely interested in Anti- 
Narcotic Hospital, and Children’s Tubercular Camp, having 
founded the latter in March, 1915. 


iHrsi. €Uen W. Conner 

Memphis is indebted to Mississippi for many of her best 
citizens, among whom is Mrs. Ellen Williamson Conner, of 
Vinton Avenue, in beautiful Bonny Crest. 

Mrs. Conner is devoted to the Westminster Presbyterian 
Church and serves to the capacity of her strength in the 
Church, in Rajunond Circle and the Church Ladies’ Aid 
Society. She belongs also to the Marian Circle of King’s 
Daughters, and works for the Home of the Incurables—one 
of the sweetest charities of the city. Like a ray of sunshine 
she brightens the lives of those whose sad affliction has shut 
them in from the world forever. 

Mrs. Conner worked for the Day Nursery until her health 
failed and she had to lighten her labors. She is a member 
of the U. D. C., and is also eligible to membership in the 
D. A. R., but has never placed her membership, preferring to 
render the most needful service first. 

Mrs. Conner is possessed of a charming personality. She 
is a successful entertainer and dwells in the love and esteem 
of a host of friends and acquaintances. 




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W\)&t 3$omen J|abe Bone for Jlealtf) in ^Tennessee 

By Mrs. K. P. Jones, 

Chairman of the Department of Public Health of the Tennessee Federation. 


^^^ENNESSEE women have recognized that the health problem is largely a woman’s 
problem. Especially is this true regarding the prevention of disease, which now 
occupies so prominent a place in medical research. “Home and Health” are two 
words indissolubly linked. In our state more than in many others, happily the men are 
the bread winners, and to the wives and mothers the task is given to preserve the 
health of the household. In health work Tennessee women have proven in fullest meas- 
uie that they desire not only to be good, but to be good for something.” They have 
gi\en theii time, talents and money in loving service for the unfortunate sick, and have 
irradiated the dark places of suffering with their practical beneficence. 


Medical science and preventive medicine have proven that illness is a waste element 
of gieat import, and the belief has steadily grown that health is of more importance 
than any othei element in civic welfare. The recovery from disease was a distinguishing 
featuie of the labors and teachings of Christ. Thus science and religion unite in commen¬ 
dation of efforts for the promotion of health and the prevention of disease. The loss of 
life from preventable disease is so appalling in our state as elsewhere, that the need of 
concerted action of all health forces is recognized. 


In Tennessee the State Board of Health and the Department of Health of the Ten¬ 
nessee Federation is in active co-operation. 

In the scope ot this article it is impossible for mention to be made of the many 
agencies for the betterment of health conditions of our state in which our women have 
been interested. Many are, of course, unknown to the writer, but among the number, 
standing on a spot perhaps unsurpassed for beauty and grandeur of scenery is “Pinebreeze 
Tuberculosis Sanitarium.” Only a few miles distant from Chattanooga and within easy 
access, yet by its peculiar location, entirely isolated, it is an ideal situation for its pur¬ 
pose, and stands as a monument to the noble men and women who placed it there. 

While multitudes of the daughters of Tennessee have labored with unremitting zeal 
in the cause of health, special mention must be made of Mrs. S. S. Crockett of Nashville, 
who, as state chairman of the Department of Public Health, performed so well her task 
that she honored our state, and was herself honored by being chosen chairman of Pub¬ 
lic Health of the General Federation. 


Because of the great interest in matters of health of the Southern Sociological Con¬ 
gress and the widespread benefits accruing therefrom, the name of Mrs. Anna Russell 
Cole, its founder, stands high on the list. 

Our women have contributed to the cause of public health, by work in schools, Sunday 
schools, churches and civic bodies. They have aided health legislation whenever pos¬ 
sible, especially the recent laws for the prevention of infant blindness, the vital statistics 
law, and bills for tuberculosis hospitals and sanitariums for the care of the helpless sick. 
With heroic effort and unfaltering courage thousands of Tennessee women have sought 
to destroy that greatest foe to good health—intemperance. 

By all these efforts, aided always by the good men of our state, Tennessee women have 
reduced the life waste and strengthened the vigor and vitality of our citizens, and have has¬ 
tened the day when our state shall be fdled with strong, well-poised, purposeful men and 
women, and a “sound mind in a sound body” shall be the heritage of every child of Tennessee. 


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Qltyt J|ome economics department 

^E Home Economics Department was created under the administration of Mrs. A. 
B. Cooke, Mrs. kannie Hicks Woolwine of Nashville, serving as the first chair¬ 
man. The department under Mrs. Woolwine’s direction inaugurated some excel¬ 
lent plans which were successfully carried out by many clubs over the state. Mrs. Wool- 
wine was particularly interested in the settlement districts and personally gave dem¬ 
onstrations there, and also through church societies, to the poor whenever they were 
congregated. Her splendid work was interrupted by her sudden death, and the Federa¬ 
tion suffered a great loss thereby. She served little less than a year. Mrs. Frank Her- 
brick succeeded Mrs. Woolwine as chairman of the department. Mrs. Herbrick was also 
of Nashville, and is a well known expert throughout the south, a graduate of domestic 
science at Columbia. Her services demand the highest prices, but she gladly gave them 
to the Federation. She gave the first demonstration of cooking ever given at a Fed¬ 
eration convention at Pulaski, which was highly appreciated by the delegates. She was 
especially interested in dietetics and most insistant on proper “balanced rations,” as a 
way to reduce the cost of living and useless waste. She emphasized care and proper 
feeding of babies and was instrumental in establishing pure milk depots where the poor 
could get free milk for their babies. Mrs. Charles S. Caldwell, one of Nashville’s best 
known housekeepers, followed Mrs. Herbrick as chairman of the department. Mrs. Caldwell 
previously had charge of the Home Economics of the Centennial Club, Nashville, Tennessee, 
where she had the distinction, not only of keeping within the allowance of the depart¬ 
ment, but made money for the club by the monthly luncheons given under her direction. 
She gave a beautiful and practical demonstration of cooking and an exhibit of labor-saving 
devices at the convention in Chattanooga in May, 1916. She possesses a rare quality in making 
the women have confidence in themselves, proving by her own work that it is not necessary to 
be an expert to accomplish good home making, neither is it dependent on a large income. Mrs. 
Caldwell’s message to the women of the state given in full, will convey an idea of the scope of 
the work of the Department of Home Economics. 

“First, divide the home department into five sub-departments, consisting of the club lunch¬ 
eons, the demonstrations, the home interior work, the child’s welfare and the house depart¬ 
ment. Have for each a chairman and a committee of nine—making a working force of ten, at 
least, in each. In this way the work is simplified and is a burden to none. The monthly lunch¬ 
eons are a means of bringing the members together socially and ought to be a source of profit 
by charging a reasonable sum per plate and limiting the number served according to the 
equipment of the club. The demonstrations are most valuable and should be worked up 
from the general membership with a break now and then in the schedule by bringing 
in a professional—but keep the tone of the demonstrations to simple, every day cooking. 
It is wonderful what talent you will find in this line right at home in your club. In 
the department of home — interior treatment, have talks on how a home can be made 
attractive. As I said in my official letter: “We can not all have costly homes—but we 
can have clean, attractive and comfortable homes.” Look up a capable woman who has 
given this subject thought and study—I don’t mean an altogether professional decorator, 
but one who has good taste and is resourceful, whose aim is to help adjust and arrange 
the material at hand, to make a home, hoine-like and livable. It is a mistake to imagine 
that all one needs is money to make a home. Money is a failure in home-making, with¬ 
out good taste and good judgment, it can not put the spirit in the home, for houses are 
moulded close about the spirits of those they shelter. As for the child in the home, it 
is such a large and grand field for action, I can only make her a few suggestions. Have 
talks on the care and feeding and clothing of young children. Have lectures by a grad¬ 
uated nurse as to the care of sick children. Have talks on the moral rearing of the child. 
Have also an exhibit of a sanitary, comfortable, up-to-date nursery. Above all, band to- 


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gether, young mothers, to enforce home rule in things you know are best for health and 
morals of your child—especially the growing girls—as to modest clothing and deportment. 
This can’t be done too forcefully—for before long we will have a nation of unwomanly 
women. The chairman and committee of the house department should make inventories 
of all that is in the club-house, its linen, china, glass and general equipment, from gar¬ 
ret to cellar. They should inspect it regularly and see that the upkeep is kept up to a 
high standard. They should set the tables on occasions of hospitality and for the monthly 
luncheons. Also they should have charge of everything in the way of decorations. Now 
having classified the several departments, and having tried to show how home economics 
in the Federation extends to all a helping hand, I can not but voice what seems to be the 
most crying need in our homes, the power to simplify and systematize the daily routine 
of work, to lighten the burden for mistress and maid, and to get out of our expenditure 
the best, both in comfort, in food and in service. I truly think if our women would take 
a more active part in the work of our households, would simplify and regulate the work, 
have a place for everything and a time for doing things, and hammer at it until we get it 
done the right way, it would reward us a hundred fold in better food, better prepared 
and better served as well as a saving of expense. But we can’t accomplish this without 
some self-sacrifice. It is very trying, this daily cleaning up and making out of menus for 
the next three meals; having to think out the problem of the left-overs; ordering food, 
checking off bills, keeping an eye generally on the modus operandi. But the result would 
be very satisfying to say nothing of the improvement in our living. Few have any 
idea of the importance of the combination of food. In England today there is a practical 
woman-to-woman demonstration, in which the titled mistress down to the humblest housewife, 
is taught face to face “the lesson of kitchen economy.” The creed England has adopted 
today would be well for us also to adopt now before the day of Pentecost arrives. And 
this is the creed: “Eat less meat. Be careful with your bread. Waste nothing. Save in 
all things—especially such things as have been imported. Use home products whenever 
possible. Before spending anything, think whether it is necessary. Grow your vegeta¬ 
bles, if you possibly can.” 

“Do your marketing; with the net result that you will save both in money, in quality 
and in quantity. Buy wisely—cook sanely and eat intelligently. Make little journeys to 
your kitchen, let your cook be ever aware of your ability to take her place—it acts like 
a charm to be independent. It is unpleasant to think of the frightful waste in our fair 
Southland—so much of it due to improper handling of these serious problems. It is 
never too late to begin. Let us start today to conserve our food and our energies, for 
higher living and preparedness in all things.” 


THE CLUB WOMAN. 

She cooketh best who knoweth best, 

All things both great and small, 

And the same mind that learning grasps 
Can cook, housekeep and all. 

—ELLA T. BROOKE. 


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(Nee Elizabeth Rives Burgess) 

“The South’s Great Woman Educator.” 


“A perfect woman, nobly planned, 

To warn, to comfort, and command.” 



OW impossible to embody in a brief sketch the glorious harvest of fruitful years, yet 
“Woman’s Work in Tennessee” would certainly be incomplete without a resume of 
the life and service of Mrs. Elbridge Gerry Buford, pre-eminently the “South’s Great 
Woman Educator.” 

That inheritance, environment, and association enter as vital factors in the formation of 
individuality, is self-evident in the life-work of all great characters. Of pure English ances¬ 
try, Mrs. Buford unites in her strong personality the blended characteristics of the practical 
Puritan and courtly Cavalier, being descended from the vigorous New England Burgess line 
through her noble father, a native of Maryland, most successful in finance, and from the cul¬ 
tured “Chamliss lineage” through her beautiful, accomplished mother of Virginia. 

“To the manner born,” as “Colonial Dame.” “D. A. R.”, “U. D. C.”, Mrs. Buford is identified 
with the finest type of American womanhood—gifted, talented, attractive—from infancy she 
was fortunate in home-life and educational opportunities, being the product of fine private 
schools, colleges and universities. Of a deeply religious nature, her ethical tendencies were 
wisely guided, forming the basis of that high sense of obligation and devotion to duty in all 
the relations of life, that have characterized her multifold and manifold career. 

Her alert intellect and refined aesthetic nature quickly grasped all subjects, till she reveled 
in language, literature, and philosophy, and became a finished pianist and charming singer, 
her artistic temperament being expressed through every avenue of thought and sentiment. 

A social favorite, a liberal benefactor, broadly cultured and accomplished, yet withal a 
remarkable business woman, Mrs. Buford ranks as a high exponent of the harmonious devel¬ 
opment of body and soul, in her remarkable versatility. A born educator, Mrs. Buford began 
her great work when scarcely a woman, being connected with the famous “Webb School,” 
afterwards becoming associated with the late celebrated Dr. W. R. Garrett, being called to 
“Martin College,” Pulaski, Tennessee, as Lady Principal with Dr. W. K. Jones, she became 
the ruling spirit of that widely known institution. Recognizing her worth, she was induced 
by Dr. G. W. F. Price to enter “Nashville College for Young Women,” where she took front 
rank as Director of the institution and Instructor of its highest branches. From thence Mrs. 
Buford was called to Clarksville, Tennessee, where she founded her “Limited, Select Home 
College for the Higher Culture of Girls and Young Women,” which was moved to Nashville 
and raised to “Buford College,” a Standard A. B. College, offering a comprehensive, progress¬ 
ive curriculum of twelve schools, ranking foremost in thoroughness and scholarship. As an 
educator of broad and deep learning, Mrs. Buford has a national and international reputation, 
drawing her representative patronage from five nations and thirty-two states, while thousands 


of splendid women, wives and mothers, rise up and call her blessed. 

Mrs. Buford has won great distinction as a student of Bible and Shakespeare, and is a 
writer of much repute, in both prose and verse, notably her splendid articles upon “Woman 
in the Economy of Creation,” “Culture Demanded by Southern Womanhood,” “The Library 
and a Liberal Education,” and her fine papers upon the “Shakespearean Drama, Reflecting 
Ancient and Inspiring Modern Dramatists.” Among her poems, possibly the most ambitious 
is “God With Us,” or “Christ in Prophecy and Fulfillment,” and her “Centennial Hymn to 
Tennessee,” sung by the schools of the State, while her remarkable “Apostrophe to Mother¬ 
hood,” her “Apotheosis of Jefferson Davis,” and “Another Man With the Hoe,” have become 
classics. 


Recognizing her great worth, a number of representative business men of Nashville have 
organized a strong stock company of over a quarter million dollars, purchased a most desir¬ 
able site and erected handsome buildings as the future home of “Buford College for Young 
Women,” and her distinguished President. 

Now in the vigor of body and soul, in perfect health, physically and spiritually, Mrs. 
Buford comes to consecrate her whole being—her character, her brilliant, cultured intellect, 
and her rich experience, to the perpetuity oi her widely known College projecting her 
strong personality through time into Eternity—where she shall receive the welcome plaudit 
—“Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into thy rich reward.” 


“To those who knew her not, no words can paint; 
To those who know her, know words are faint.” 

—Her Devoted, Grateful Alumnae. 


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Ctbtc W orfe tn ^Tennessee 

By Mrs. Wm. A. Knabe, 

Chairman of Civics, Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs. 


the club women of Tennessee have not been laggards in civic work is evidenced 
^11. by the number of things accomplished and projected along the lines of work which 
we now know are comprehended under that term which stands for community bet¬ 
terment, better citizenship, higher standards of living, health, education, beauty and moral 
status of a community, called civics. 

The parlor variety of civic workers is almost obsolete in the ranks of Tennessee club 
women today. They are talking and doing the things needful for community betterment. 
As the thing done has a value distinct from the most perfect theory, this article will deal 
only with those things accomplished. At the head of the list we put the periodical “clean 
up” campaigns, which are the most direct, practical and permanent avenues for work 
for homes and towns beautiful and sanitary, and which have wonderfully changed the pub¬ 
lic attitude toward the need and advantage of civic cleanliness and resulted in improved 
health, and increase of beauty and attractiveness of the whole state. 

Realizing how closely the question of public health touches the family and individual, 
the club women have been responsible for the activity that has been directed toward secur¬ 
ing a medical inspection and the teaching of personal hygiene in the public schools; 
child welfare and all its allied subjects. Community rights have been insisted upon whether 
for the removal of some public nuisance menacing health and comfort, or the protection of the 
individual against unscrupulous trades people and the enforcing of the laws for pure and 
clean foods and sanitation. 


In some towns the civic workers have caused curfew laws to be instituted and obeyed, 
have erected public drinking fountains and monuments, beautified school buildings and 
school grounds, inaugurated sprinkler systems and secured garbage disposal plants, have 
waged war on the fly, mosquito, rats and all dangerous pests, have planted trees, flowers, 
shrubs and vines for civic beautification, established rest rooms and homes for the aged, 
secured birth registration laws, instituted propagandas against bill boards and smoke nui¬ 
sance, co-operated in securing juvenile court laws, compulsory education laws, and laws 
for the prevention of blindness. 

A monument to the altruistic spirit of the club women of Tennessee is the vocational 
training school for delinquent girls, which is to be erected by the state, but the legal act 
for which was agitated by and secured through their influence. 

Art and domestic science and manual training have been introduced into the public 
schools and their energies are now directed toward the development of social centers, the 
wider use of school plants as such and securing directors of public recreation. 

Women have always been the conservers of life and conservation of child life her 
own particular work, and because play is now recognized as one of the most important 
factors of child education and one of the most deeply significant in its bearing on later life, they 
have secured play grounds and parks for their recreation and development, and have also estab¬ 
lished home gardens, school gardens and vacant lot gardens. These are only a few of the things 
that have engaged their attention. Service for others has been their watch word. 

Co-operation is the basic power of modern life, and the civic work done has been 
possible only because of the sacrifice of time, money, service and intellect of splendid 
women who have seen the vision of better things for their sex and race, and with far-see¬ 
ing optimism and altruism have gone forward from one successful venture to another. 

For, as Kipling says: 

“It ain’t the guns or armaments, or funds that they can pay, 

But the close co-operation that makes them win the day; 

It ain’t the individual or the army as a whole, 

But the everlasting team work of every blooming soul.” 


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Cora Senrp 9sfje 

A noted educator of the south and late principal of St. Paul school; honorary president and founder 
of the Teachers’ Educational League and editor for several years of the Cornerstone, a magazine pub¬ 
lished by the teachers of the Memphis city schools; member of the executive committee that secured the 
West Tennessee Normal for Shelby county; first president Tennessee Branch of the American School 
Peace League under the Carnegie Movement; first vice regent Commodore Perry Chapter, D. A. R.; charter 
member Chapter House Association, D. A. R.; member Harvey Mathes Chapter, U. D. C., and chairman of the 
department of history and literature of the Nineteenth Century Club; facile writer of local periodicals, and as 
an elocutionist, has compiled and published a work entitled “Practical Drills in Vocalization.” 


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Club ^omen be fflone for tfje public Schools; 

By Mrs. L. M. Russell, 

State Chairman of Education, Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs. 



FEW years ago the question “What can cluh women do for the public school?” 
was asked the United States Commissioner of Education. He replied by pointing out 
some much needed school legislation for Tennessee. 


The measures he advocated were brought before the 6,000 clubwomen of the state by 
their chairman of education, and they w r ere asked to assist the school authorities of Ten¬ 
nessee in their efforts to secure the passage of a general education hill embodying the 
needed reforms, chief among which w r as the increase of the school appropriation from one- 
fourth to one-third of the gross revenue of the state. 

Thousands of letters asking for the passage of this bill w r ere w T ritten by clubwomen 
to their legislators and many able clubw T omen w r ent to Nashville to the capitol and lobbied 
for the bill. 


It w 7 as passed and became a law. The state superintendent of education sent a letter 
to the clubwomen thanking them for their assistance in this matter. Thus, one of the 
most important things clubw T omen can do is to assist the school authorities of the state in 
the passage of needed legislation. 

It is of the greatest importance that club women who w r ant to help should find out 
w r hat the school authorities are trying to do and then co-operate with them in doing it, 
rather than strike out along different lines, however important these may be. Effi¬ 
cient organization demands that all w T ork together for one thing and not along diverging 
lines. 


This does not mean that clubwomen may never originate a movement. The voca¬ 
tional school for girls, for which appropriations w r ere made by the last legislature, is a pro¬ 
ject which was originated entirely by the clubwomen of the state, as was the bill provid- 
ing that women may serve on school boards. The bill w 7 as passed, and women are now 
serving on school boards in our state. 

Next to securing needed legislation, the most important educational work done by the 
clubwomen has been the holding of education days which really constituted a school 
rally. The most distinguished school men in the state have been secured as speakers, 
and the general public has been invited to attend the rallies. The local school authorities 
have in each case co-operated with the club women who had arranged the program by 
allowing the schools to dismiss early enough for the teachers to attend. Students of the 
local schools have been invited to participate in the program by rendering musical or 
literary numbers as an entertaining feature. 

The great value of the rallies is that it gives the school officials an opportunity to 
bring before the public plans for educational advancement, and thus prepares the people 
for needed reforms by educating popular sentiment along the lines of these reforms. 
Measures like the consolidation of one-room schools, appropriations or bond issues for 
county high schools, free transportation of pupils to and from school in rural districts, medical 
inspection of schools, domestic science in the grades, agricultural training in rural schools and 
manual training in city schools, the six-and-six plan for high and grammar schools are all valu¬ 
able in themselves, but popular sentiment had to be educated up to each. It is useless to 
attempt to force even a priceless gift upon people till they themselves feel the need of it. 

This get-together spirit of school people and clubwomen in the interests of the school 
has another benefit. It has a strong tendency to make the school more of a social center. 
I firmly believe that clubwomen are in a more favorable position to make the school a 
real social center than are the classroom teachers themselves, who certainly have all 
they can do single-handed in the daily recitations and schoolroom tasks. If anything more 
is to be done in the schools than giving instructions in school subjects other shoulders must 
be put to the wheel beside the already over-burdened ones of the classroom teachers. Club¬ 
women are both able and willing to help to make the school a social center. 

One of the ways in which they are doing so is by holding joint programs on special 
days of which some numbers are furnished by the public schools and some by the club¬ 
women. 

Peace day, arbor day, bird day, health day, garden day, savings bank day, vocational 
day suggest themselves. 


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Once the clubwomen go to the schools they become interested in them and with the 
woman’s inborn tendency to make material surroundings better and human beings happier 
and more cheerful, they begin to add comforts to the school. 

The School Improvement Leagues, which, by the way, are women’s clubs of the high¬ 
est altruistic type, have, in various places, put in everything to add to the students’ com¬ 
fort, from tree kindergartens down to free soup, and from sanitary towels up to pianos. 
Beautiful pictures hang on the walls, snowy curtains wave at the windows and in some 
places a kind-faced school nurse moves about, all on account of the efforts of noble, altru¬ 
istic women. 

Little things or big things, pennies or pounds, whatever is needed for the schools, 
club women have endeavored to supply. When our local university was in the midst of 
an endowment campaign, women of two large local clubs subscribed $1 each for four years, 
and thus raised $1,000, which amount was duplicated by one club woman, thus adding 
$2,000 to the university fund, and establishing two permanent scholarships. Every year 
since that time these scholarships have been used by graduates of the public schools who 
could not otherwise have had a university course. 

But not alone within the school may the club women work for the public school 
child. She follows him outside and provides many happy hours for his amusement. 

Story hours at the libraries, fascinating Saturday movies of “Jack and the Bean¬ 
stalk,” “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” or “The Three Bears,” playgrounds equipped with 
swings and slides and see-saws, seeds for planting in the individual gardens are some of 
the tempting devices with which she beguiles him to a pleasant and wholesome use of his 
leisure to enrich his experience. 

The great mother heart of the city clubwomen has brooded beneficently over the 
rural districts, too, and she has aided, by her moral and financial support, such projects as 
mountain schools and settlements, canning and corn clubs and even extension schools for 
illiteracy. 


QTfje bureau of information 

Mrs. Robert S. Webb, Chairman. 


bureau of information of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs is a 
il clearing-house of ideas, and what is more tangible, papers and programs. When- 
ever a club has an especially good program it picks its best papers and sends them 
to the bureau of information, along with lists of reference books and any other infor¬ 
mation it may have. For instance, if a civics club launches some big feature with ulti¬ 
mate success, it is only too glad to pass the good work along so that others may benefit 
by and enjoy the same. If a music club makes a special study of a certain composer, or 
set of works, it does the same, and so on down the whole Federation curriculum. 

Sometimes by reading a paper some one else has written—even if one has written a 
paper on the same subject—one glimpses a much keener and clearer perspective, and it is 
a mental stimulant to get an intimate idea of another’s thoughts. 

When this department was first inaugurated, it was for the purpose of collecting as 
many good papers as possible for use of clubs not having access to good libraries. That 
clubs throughout the state have made constant use of it is most gratifying to the Feder¬ 
ation. 

A file of the year books of the clubs is also kept, and many clubs ask for these, there¬ 
by gleaning much valuable information and many ideas. 


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Jflrs. ©. 2Protone 

(Formerly Miss Mamie E. Cain) 

A leader in the club world and in the educational held. Miss Cain represented the Memphis schools on 
the American Teachers’ Visit to Europe in 1909. Was entertained by American Ambassadors in London and 
Paris. 

Has served as member of the West Tennessee State Normal Executive committee, president of Teachers’ 
Educational League, business manager and associate editor of the Cornerstone, member of the National South¬ 
ern, and Tennessee Educational Associations, National Geographical Society, Nineteenth Century Club, J. Harvey 
Mathes Chapter, LL D. C., Commodore Perry Chapter, D. A. R., Confederate Memorial Association, Ladies’ Aux¬ 
iliary of A. O. H., organizer and president of Thomas Lynch Society, C. A. R., vice-chairman of School Hygiene, 
Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs. Appointed by Governors Hooper and Rye as delegate to Southern 
Sociological Congress. Director in American Peace League. State Chairman of Women’s Peace Party, and 
delegate in 1914 to the International Congress of Women at The Hague. 

Formerly special teacher in the City Schools and the first one to advocate and operate an open-air school. 
Was born and reared in Memphis, and is a Roman Catholic. 



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extension department 

By Mrs. Claude D. Sullivan, Chairman. 

>|1^NE of the most forward steps ever taken by the Ten- 
nessee Federation of Women’s Clubs was the creation 
the Extension Department. This was done at the 
annual convention held in Morristown in May of 1915, 
and Mrs. Claude D. Sullivan, of Nashville, was appointed chair¬ 
man of said department. The object is three-fold: 

F irst—To induce clubs already organized to affiliate with 
the State Federation. 

Second—To encourage the formation of new clubs wher¬ 
ever needed, particularly in the towns, villages and rural dis¬ 
tricts. 

Third—To encourage in the already Federated clubs a 
broader spirit of loyalty toward the Federation. 

Some clubs, though belonging to the Federation, know 
little of its work, and avail themselves of few of the benefits, 
and this department fills a long-felt need in acquainting them 
with the purposes of the Federation and the benefits to be 
derived by keeping in close touch with the chairmen of depart¬ 
ments, and in urging the clubs to make use of what the Federation has to give. 

Immediately after taking up the work of this department, Mrs. Sullivan set about organ¬ 
izing the state into districts, after the plan of the congressional districts, appointing a chair¬ 
man of extension in each district, each chairman to serve as president of her district federa¬ 
tion, as follows: First district, Mrs. W. W. Harmon, Greeneville; second district, Mrs. Lula 
Harris, Morristown; third district, Mrs. J. H. Daly, Chattanooga; fourth district, Mrs. Rut¬ 
ledge Smith, Cookeville; fifth district, Mrs. N. P. Carter, Fayetteville; sixth district, Mrs. A. 
H. Purdue, Nashville; seventh district, Miss Estelle Edwards, Centerville; eighth district, Mrs. 
Birdie A. Owen, Jackson; ninth district, Mrs. Jas. F. Biggs, Dyersburg; tenth district, Mrs. 
Thomas T. Johnson, Memphis. 

The clubs in each district, belonging to the state federation, make up the district federa¬ 
tion. Each district federation holds an annual all-day meeting with a program, thus giving 
many women who cannot go to the state meeting, an opportunity to get in touch with the 
work of the federation. 

The ultimate end in view in connection with this department is the organization of 
county federations. It has been found, where this plan has been tried, that nothing helps so 
much to bring about a spirit of friendliness and mutual helpfulness between the women of 
the country and the women of the towns as the county federation of clubs. 

The district meetings, in no way, interfere with the state meetings, but on the contrary, 
both the interest and the attendance of the state meetings is greatly augmented by the wide¬ 
spread knowledge of the work of the federation and the enthusiasm and inspiration which 
results from the district meetings. 

A finer spirit could not be shown than these district chairman manifest in this district 
work. Being a new experience for club women in Tennessee, the work has been doubly hard 
but their unselfish devotion of time, strength and means toward carrying forward the work 
of the extension department is making an impression on the women all over the state and is 
certain to result in great and everlasting good to the Federation. 



Mrs. Claude D. Sullivan 


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®rabeltng ^Libraries 


TORIES of the Cumberland hills and mountains picture for us the Tennessee Moun- 
Sj) taineei as a tall, slouching figure in homespun, who carries a rifle as habitually as 
he does his hat. 1 his is a splendid photograph of the Tennessee Highlander, and 
it might also be added that the muzzle of that same gun is tilted toward a stranger before 
he is addiessed, then he hears the startling salutation: “Stop thar! Whars you uns agoin’ 
ter? Search where you will, you will find in no library on earth a guide to those regions. 
The most diligent research will result in finding absolutely nothing in the way of guide 
maps, for the mountaineers will not permit them to be made. 

The greatest mountain system in Eastern America is massed in our Southland. They 
spread over part of eight continuous states—650 miles in an air line, and cover an area 
equal to the Alps. 

When I first went into the Smokies, I stopped one night in a single room log cabin, and 
soon had the good people absorbed in tales of city life, especially in the books and the 
schools where one could learn to read and, more wonderful, to write. 

When I went into the mountains, I was seeking a “Back of Beyond,” and there I 
found it. Illiteracy was the rule, illiteracy and poverty. A school house was unknown. 
When I came the same way again, I found mountain schools, and, all things considered, 
a splendid system of education begun. Moreover, they had traveling libraries and they 
treasured them. All this was the work of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs, 
and it was work, indeed. 


When they had perfected a system of over 100 libraries, they induced the state to 
take them over and continue the work. Now, if a settlement or town desires a library, all 
they have to do is to write the librarian at the Capitol Library, and one will be sent for a 
period of six months, after which another may be secured. 

Traveling Libraries have, through education first, put the mountaineers more in touch 
with the world than they have ever been before. Many of them who read of the wonder¬ 
ful things in the world have never been four miles from home, and can not begin to con¬ 
ceive what a railroad or train is like. But, through the libraries, they sit in their one- 
room log cabins and travel to the “big cities,” not believing what they read, but taking it 
all as a fairy tale. 

The poverty of the mountain people is awakened, but high-minded and unashamed. 
To comment on it, is considered an impertinence. The people haven’t a ghost of an idea 
that poverty may be a great deal more picturesque than luxury, that if the world knew of 
their actual condition, the nation would awaken to its duties toward a region that it 
has so long and so singularly neglected. 

The worst enemies of the mountain people are those public men who, knowing the 
true state of things, still conceal or deny the facts in order to salve a sore local pride, 
encourage the supine fatalism of “what must be, needs be,” and so drug the highlanders back 
into their Rip Van Winkle sleep. 


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ffiepartment of literature 

By Mrs. George E. Blake, Chairman. 

BROWNING says, “I had rather put a song into a man’s heart than to mend his 
jTljl coat or warm his porridge.” The other departments are mending coats and warming 
porridge It is the province of this department to put the song into the heart. “A 
knowledge of literature,” says Arnold Bennett, “is the sine qua non of complete lining,” and 
William Dean Howell writes: 

“I have never been able to see much difference in what seemed to me literature and what 
seemed to me life. If I did not see life in what professed to be literature I disabled its profes¬ 
sion; and I am never quite sure of life unless I find literature in it—unless the thing seen 
reveals to me an intrinsic poetry and puts on phrases that clothe it pleasingly to the imagina¬ 
tion I do not much care tor it; but if it will do this I do not much mind how poor, or common, 
or squalid it shows at first glance, it challenges my curiosity and keeps my sympathy.” 

It may be a much greater thing to abolish sweat shops and secure shorter working hours 
for the working girl than to write “The Song of the Shirt;” to be the author of the bill forbid¬ 
ding child labor than the author of “The Cry of the Children,” but how many have been awak¬ 
ened for the first time to the actual struggles and sufferings of women and children, and con¬ 
vinced for the moment at least, that real success in the world would be to do something for 
them. The man who has shed his blood on the battlefield may have done his country a 
greater service than the one who writes its battle hymns—but the battle cry has inspired 
many to the conflict. 

The words in which Tennyson expressed his “Vision of Universal Peace” rises to the lips 
of every man in his pleas for arbitration of international differences. Upton Sinclair’s novel, 
“The Jungle” (however it may rank as literature) aroused the fighting blood of President 
Roosevelt and others and had great influence in the passage of the pure food bill. 

The president of the splendid organization, “The Traveler’s Aid,” appeared before a liter¬ 
ary club recently with an appeal for help to save the young girls of our country. This club 
had just been reading Brieux powerful drama, “Maternity,” and its quick and sympathetic 
response to her appeal astonished the president in spite of her own noble and eloquent words 
in its behalf. Brieux had prepared the way. “God uses us to help each other so.” 

The history of the Women’s club movement shows us that it had its beginning in the 
Study club, organized for self-culture only. This it seems is as it should be—culture, like 
charity, must begin at home. These first crude attempts of woman at self-development were 
caricatured and made much sport of. Perhaps at first she did merely cut up a few antics on 
the doorstep of culture. Perhaps she was only coquetting (it was her habit) with things of the 
mind, but she played with the Divine fire until she caught the flame. She fell really in love at 
last, and a new era dawned for woman. In the glimpses of comprehension vouchsafed her 
she caught a vision which she will not relinquish. She learned that real culture “means to 
go out of one’s self and come into loving contact with others.” Thus was evolved our Federa¬ 
tion of Women’s Clubs—to become a mighty factor in the life of today. It is characteristic of 
organic evolution, we are told, that numerous progressive tendencies, for a long time incon¬ 
spicuous, now and then unite to bring about a sudden change. So it has been with the club 
movement, and the progress at first so slow will henceforward be more rapid. But in our 
march toward perfection let us not forget the principles of our faith—let us remember that 
self-culture is the foundation stone. 


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3 N every department ot life in Tennessee, women have done their part since the founding 
of the commonwealth, and in the literature of the Volunteer State their names are 
“writ large.” In fact, should a volume, “Tennessee in American Literature” be com¬ 
piled, the preponderance ot teminine names would be overwhelming. In almost every depart¬ 
ment of literature they have won varying degrees of recognition. The list of writer folk 
includes: Novelists, historians, biographers, essayists, short story writers, dramatists, poets 
and scenario writers, and outside the realm of pure literature a number of gifted pens have 
been dedicated to editorial and journalistic work. The power of women has been distinctly 
felt in Tennessee journalism. 


The works of some Tennessee women writers are included each year among the best sell¬ 
ers in the United States; verses by her poets appear in leading anthologies, and the names 
of authors from this state appear frequently in the tables of contents of leading magazines. 
Women authors have written volumes on topics as divergent as cook books and a treatise on 
gardening, to philosophy and a manual of parliamentary law, which has been widely used. 

In the golden days before “the war between the states,” the sweet voice of such singers as 
L. Virginia French sounded the first note of Tennessee’s literary symphony, which has so gath¬ 
ered in volume that it has reached the national, and in the case of a few writers, the interna¬ 
tional ear. 


The first Tennessee woman who gave the state a conspicuous place in American litera¬ 
ture was Miss Mary N. Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock), who introduced to the reading 
world the Tennessee uplands and their picturesque mountain folk. She has had a long line 
of literary successors since she first blazed this trail. 

Lack of space forbids individual tribute to these gifted women or classification as to 
their literary productions, since many have not devoted their talents exclusively to any one 
form of literary expression. Some of the best prose writers are gifted poets as well, and indi¬ 
vidual versatility appears to be a pronounced characteristic of the women writers of this 
section. 

A prime factor in the development of Tennessee literature is the Tennessee Woman’s 
Press and Authors’ Club, which has given a new impetus to authorship. Founded in 1899 
with Mrs. Grace MacGowan Cooke as its first president, its history is one of continued 
growth. Its presidents have been: Mrs. Anne Rankin Osborne, Mrs. Annie Booth McKinney, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Fry Page, Mrs. Oscar T. Peeples, Mrs. Olivia Hill Grosvenor, Mrs. Rutledge 
Smith, Miss Zella Armstrong and Mrs. John A. Epperson. This club owns its own club¬ 
house, an attractive log bungalow at Bloomington Springs, in the Cumberland mountains. 

The Southern Woman’s Magazine, published in Nashville, of which Mrs. Annie Rankin is 
editor, is discovering and fostering new literary talent, and is a great credit to the south. 

An enumeration of the great galaxy of literary stars in this hemisphere must of neces¬ 
sity be incomplete, and no attempt can be made in this circumscribed space to grade these 
stars as to magnitude. 

Recognition of the ability of some of these women writers of Tennessee has called 
them to larger literary centers, east and west, while others have sought a quiet retreat in 
some solitude, where they might best pursue their literary labors. But even those who have 
gone outside the borders of the state are still bound to this section by ties of affection, and 
state pride insists that “adsum” shall be heard when the roster of her distinguished daughters 
is called. Frances Hodgson Burnett spent her early life in Tennessee, though the greater part 
of her literary work was done elsewhere, and there are others not now residing in this sec¬ 
tion, upon whom Tennessee feels that she has a claim. 

Among the women writers may be mentioned: Mary N. Murfree, Will Allen Drom- 
goole, Virginia Frazer Boyle, Martha McCulloch Williams, Elizabeth M. Gilmer (Dorothy 
Dix), Grace MacGowan Cooke, Alice MacGowan, Corra Harris, Sara Beaumont Kennedy,Maria 
Thompson Daviess, Bettie Garland, Annie Boothe McKinney, Sarah Barnwell Elliott, Eliza¬ 
beth Fry Page, Kate Trimble Sharber, Lillian Nicholson Shearon, Helen Topping Miller, Ida 
Clyde Clarke, Harriet Malone Hobson, Rosa Naomi Scott, Beth Slater Whitson, Anne Sherrill 
Baird, Caroline Wood Morrison, Blanche Goodman Eisendrath, Hallie B. Goodman, Annah Rob¬ 
inson Watson, Kate Trader Barrow, Zella Armstrong, Octavia Zollicoffer Bond, Garnet Noel 
Wiley, Emma Look Scott, Fannie Murfree, Maria Crawford Luttrell, Kathrin P. Haden, Kath¬ 
erine P. Grimes, Grace Cook Allen, Margaret Winston Caldwell, Ittie K. Reno, Augusta Kor- 
trecht, Nola Nance Oliver, Betty Lyle Wilson, Maude McGehee Hankins, Anne Bachman 
Hyde, Lizzie Elliott and the late Eva Williams Malone and Annie Somers Gilchrist. 


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Mrs. George W. Barrow. 


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N author ity says: Kate 1 rader Barrow dips her pen in both honey and spice and so 
with her stories and verse has brightened many hearts. Faith is her keynote and from 
the harp of poetic expression she produces the strains of inspiration, while her prose 
is rich in brilliant originality and charm. 

She is an artist in the making of toasts and essays or speeches of occasion. The fol¬ 
lowing selections are from a compilation soon to he published in book form.” 


TWO VIEWS. 

In the rush of the world and its greed for gold 
They say that sentiment’s growing cold, 

That even Christmas isn’t the same. 

The spirit is gone, and only in name 
Is the sacred season observed today. 

And, not in the sw r eet old-fashioned way 
Of “Peace on earth, good will to men;” 

’Tis now but a season of weariness, when 
The giving is but the paying of debt 
As the fetters of obligation fret. 

No touch of tenderness leaves its trace 
In the whirl of mammon’s market place. 

This pitiful pessimistic view 
May be the state of a sordid few. 

But the spirit of Christ is just as strong 
In the heart of the busy, hustling throng, 

And millions of splendid deeds are done 
For the sake of Bethlehem’s gentle son. 

The wanderer homeward w'ends his way 
Drawn by the magnet of Christmas day. 

While severed friendships feel the glow 
Of reflected gleams from the Long Ago; 

And Conscience gives a memory-smile 
To the good intentions of After-w'hile. 

For the Star of the East still shines as bright 
As it did on that distant glorious night, 

And wise men now and forevermore 
Will the Prince of Love and Peace adore. 


PIKE’S PEAK. 

Did great Ambition give thee birth, thou Wonder of the West, 

Art thou a strange and mighty growth of soaring, wild unrest? 

Or was thy aim to climb until thou touched high Heaven’s wall 
And, waiting there, be first to hear the Master’s final call? 

Bare gifts thou gathered in thy flight as did the Wise of Old, 

Swreet flow'ers on the rugged breast above a heart of gold. 

Thy jeweled veins fast holding priceless treasures for thy King, 

To shame, perchance, the wealth of trophies human hands may bring. 

So lonely dost thou seem and sad, that tender clouds droop down 
To w r eave about thy royal head a more than regal crown. 

The laughing sun grows brighter, too, to welcome thee at dawn. 

While moon and stars in silver light seem nearer to thee drawn. 

And yet, not even thou couldst reach, the goal thou wouldst attain; 
And so thy tears in crystal streams flow back to earth again. 

The Hand Divine was firmly pressed to thine aspiring brow, 

And bade thee go no further up than where thou standest now\ 

The humblest blossom at thy feet may hear the summons first, 

And yet methinks the Father will allay thy lofty thirst. 

For noble aspirations checked on earth and seeming lost 
Will some w r ay find the recompense well worth the struggle’s cost. 


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QTenneggee JttuStc Clubs anb Jflti£»tctan£ 

By Mrs. Henry Lupton, 

Chairman of Music, Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs. 


“And she shall sing there according to the days of her youth. 

And according to the days of her going up out of the land of Egypt ”— 



INCE pioneer days, the days of strife and toil for the woman of Tennessee, she has ever 
been able to bear her burdens with a “song on her lips.” Then when change and rev¬ 
olution pressed too hard upon her she turned passionately to the changeless face of 
Nature and lay with her heart close in the great silence of our mountains and there crooned our 
earliest songs. And now, we call these things beautiful, which in the long succession of our 
ancestral days, we have been told of. They rest the soul of us, with a sense of their stabil¬ 
ity, these things; quite a splendid avarice, of ours, with an assurance that we own, through 
these legends of ours, what will never be taken from us. 

After the season of pathetic song, during the four years of civil war, when peace and 
golden traquillity were stretched once more across Tennessee, and where the 


“Low of cattle and song of birds, 

And health and quiet and loving words” 

reigned, in place of shot and shell, the music’s rhythm seemed gayer. Then began to appear 
many original and local compositions. Although many foreigners came into the state and 
became teachers of standard methods, “Mason’s” and “Peters’ ” editions were on every rose¬ 
wood and pearl-keyed piano. Rare voices were heard; on many occasions they seemed to cry 
aloud from the ruins of broken fortunes and desolate homes. It was to those dear mothers of 
faith and aesthetic culture we owe our music and music clubs in the Tennessee of today. 

Since the days of Mrs. Croly, who organized the first woman’s club in the United States, 
women’s clubs have appeared in all states, and in approximately all small towns in Tennes¬ 
see. In the last twenty-five years rapid progress has been made in making history, as far as 
musical organizations are concerned. Thirty years ago the musical organizations in Tennes¬ 
see consisted largely of men’s brass bands with no evidence of women’s organizations. But 
it was very soon her instinct, her presentment that in the “duet” of life between man and 
woman, the woman’s voice has usually the greater range and she has higher notes and lower 
notes, which he can never reach, and these she has to sing alone. His range consists of a 
few middle tones—very good—But he has only these. So the “women’s musical clubs” 
appeared throughout the state and a great and wonderful work they have done. In these clubs 
which represent most patrician blood and God-given talent, one will find the genius ever pres¬ 
ent. Music has enriched her; the vision is all her own, also the form of her expression. Her 
style has not only its characteristics of technique, but personality in its widest sense, that 
personality which reveals the spirit in which she has met the divine adventure, called life. 
In music her mood is high; hervsong’s voice, unconsciously, the mystic declaration: “the wise 
soul uses the excellence of things, and so things hurt it not at all.” This has become her 
law. Her musical career is but the symbol M her personality, the sacrament of her life in 
which one feels the Presence. 

From nature, of this quality, when the creative gift is added, something fine and per¬ 
manent in music will come, and when time shall have released her from the ephemeral, it will 
be found to have left something fine and permanent, and we will hardly question this, who 
know these women’s work. 

In early days of musical life in Nashville the capitol of Tennessee, when there were 
few pipe organs even in so large a city, an organ was transported from New York to Nash¬ 
ville and placed in the old Presbyterian church on College street. It was a wooden affair, 
made by hand and worked by hand-power bellows. This was loaned, on one occasion, to the 
state capitol, taken down, moved to the capitol and set up in the grand old senate chamber. 
This task was a laborious one and showed an dmiration for organ music by the masses 
many years ago. Now, many, many thousands of dollars are invested in magnificent pipe 
organs throughout Tennessee. Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Jackson, Claiks- 
ville and many others own wonderful instruments. Great pride is felt in the better church 
music in all churches, since the days of the choirs of 1860, and Tennessee cities spend large 
sums of money in choir service. Full many years will have passed before church goers of 


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Nashville will ever torget the singing of Fannie Dorman Thurston and Emma Johnson, two 
early choir leaders of that city. 

Nashville had, at one time, the first conservatory of music in the state, under the direction 
ot August Schemmel of Munich, Germany. Th s was a remarkable school for those days 
and pioneered the way for others to follow. M mphis also has its conservatory. The depart¬ 
ments in music tor both Catholic and Protestant schools is a wonderful adjunct to the 
music student now in Tennessee. The department directed by Charles Washburn at the great 
Ward-Belmont college, has no equal in any other state. 

After the appearance of the music clubs came a revolution in the class of music heard 
by Tennesseeans. The classics did not appeal to audiences in years past, as now. They were 
as children who dread the dark, until they learned the ways of day and night. Then dark¬ 
ness takes upon itself a beauty all its own. There is confusion and oppressiveness about any 
work of music or language which we do not understand; it is as if we were listening to a song 
in Sanskrit or to the outlandish cadence of a Chinese chant. Such was the state of audi¬ 
ences during the early visits of the Theodore Thomas orchestra. Through the channels of 
music clubs, with large memberships, and large study and thought given to the arrange¬ 
ment ot programs, and visits of artists in recital, this great difficulty of “appreciating” is 
being lilted. If this is not a cogent raison d’etre for the existence of music clubs, then there 
is none. 

Tennessee was soon aware of the necessity of public school music as a necessary branch 
of culture. Every child needs the rhythm and beauty of music. Often children hum tunes even 
before they learn to talk. Wherever there is a little child there is need for songs. Public school 
training has been the essential motive in uplifting music throughout the state; the school 
hymnal leads to an ever deepening appreciation of good music. The systems used are sim¬ 
ple and direct and the child’s imagination is stimulated by this department in school work. 

Musical organizations were slow to become federated in the Tennessee Federation of 
Women’s Clubs. At the present time more than twenty clubs are members of the Federation. 
They have become more neighborly; they exchange recitals and year books. They are 
now a great part of a great work. Prudence Simpson-Dresser of Gallatin did much for the 
state department of music as chairman, 1913-1914. She was the originator of the plan pre¬ 
sented to the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in Chicago “to adopt and memorialize 
the national air “Star-Spangled Banner” in every musical club and public school of the 
United States. As chairman ex-officio she is president of a prosperous club in Gallatin, Ten¬ 
nessee. 

The presidents of the various Tennessee clubs are: 

Brownsville, Mrs. William Kinney; Carthage, Mrs. William K. Webb; Centreville, Miss 
Estelle Edwards; Clarksville, Mrs. Henry Lupton; Dyersburg, Miss Beatrice Stevens; Galla¬ 
tin, Mrs. Prudence Simpson-Dresser; Harriman, Mrs. B. C. Watkins; Jackson, Miss Mattie 
Fletcher; Johnson City, Mrs. Bert Pouder; Jonesboro, Mrs. Frank Patton; Knoxville, Tuesday 
Music Club, Miss Florence Fair; Martin, Mrs. Edna O’Brien; Memphis, Mrs. R. M. Beattie; 
Paris, Miss Lucile Lamb; Union City, Mrs. George Eades; Springfield, Mrs. C. T. Towne; Shel¬ 
by ville, Mrs. James Hutton; Cleveland, Mrs. John Milne; Nashville, Mrs. John Bell Keeble; 
Morristown, Mrs. C. B. Haag; Chattanooga, Mrs. Morris Temple; Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. Charles 
Gilman; Nashville (Vandredi Club), Mrs. Iv. C Hardcastle; Nashville (Mozart Club), Miss 
Marian Dempsey; Nashville (Opera Research), Mrs. Robert DeWitt Smith. 

Among well-known musicians of the state, who have gained prominence, may be men¬ 
tioned: 

Arthur F. Hinkle, composer and teacher, and president of Tennessee division of the 
Organists Guild, has promulgated the work of the organ most successfully. 

Mrs. Tobey of Memphis and teacher of classes in the summer school of Chautauqua, N. Y., 
was one of the best known of Tennessee pianists. 

Mme. Louise Bailey-Apfelbeck, born in Nashville, now of Vienna, is a renowned pianist. 

Kitty Cheatham, born in Nashville of distinguished Southern lineage, dating back to 
generals of Revolutionary times, who influenced both the social and political life of those 
early days, is generally known. She created the art she now uses. She has a wonderful 
blending of mental vitality, color and imagination. Her first concert in London was at the 
home of one of Queen Alexandra’s ladies-in-waiting, her fellow artists being Mme. Albani 
and Johannes Wolf, the violinist. Afterward she was received by the royal families of 
England, Russia, Spain, Greece, Bavaria, Servia Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She has presented 
the negro folk lore to the universities of Yale, Berlin and Cornell. She has been recently 


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accompanied in her song recitals by the great Humperdinck, who honored her by playing one 
of her children’s songs at her large Christmas matinee for children. 

Oscar Seagle, born in Chattanooga, now of Paris, France, is one of Tennessee’s most 
gifted sons, possessing a rare baritone voice. 

Angelo Cortese, born in London, Canada, now a resident of Memphis and the head of the 
great “Southern School of Italian Harp,” is one of Tennessee’s great artists. 

Mrs. E. L. Ashford of Nashville, is the best known local composer in the state. Hen 
works of choral composition, songs and cantatas are used throughout the United States. She 
is also editor of “The Organist” a monthly magazine. 

Miss Eloise Bailor and Mrs. Rita-Faxon Pryor of Chattanooga are renowned vocalists. 

Clarksville has historically many eminent musicians. Prof. William Emery, organist of 
Grace church, has celebrated his fiftieth anniversary as organist and choir master. 

Mrs. H. Lupton has celebrated twenty-two years service as organist and director at Mad¬ 
ison street Methodist church. 

Among many beautiful voices of Clarksville, Maud Merritt-Chinnick was pre-eminently 
one of the great singers. i 

Mr. and Mrs. Falberg of Cleveland, directors of music in Centenary college, have won 
renown. 

Cadek, violinist of Chattanooga, born in a foreign land but abiding in Tennessee, has 
brought the violin school forward and done a wonderful work. 

Mrs. Godwin, Mrs. Ferguson and Mr. Nelson of Knoxville are well known in music cir¬ 
cles at home and abroad. 

Memphis supports a large symphony orchestra and employs a director. Much municipal 
interest is felt in music in that city and in other cities throughout the state. Especially at 
Christmastide these cities assist in the “community tree” celebrations and large chorus choirs 
and music clubs give public singings on Christmas night. This has become an annual Christ¬ 
mas feature throughout the state, and a most beautiful custom it is, celebrating the nativity 
in glorious song, instead of with noisy fire-crackers and in other undignified ways. The past 
few years found all musicians through the state singing at the identical same hour, the same 
hymn. This, in itself, was a magnificent test of good musicianship. 

A plan to encourage local composers, enlarge music clubs, encourage better teaching, a 
law to license music teachers, the singing of the “Star-Spangled Banner” daily by all pub¬ 
lic schools, more choral organizations, more children’s clubs is now launched by the clubs 
federated with the state organiaztion, they believing sincerely in the state organization’s 
motto “In Unity There Is Strength.” 


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jUrsi. JJapoleon ^ill 

Mary Morton Wood was born at Bolivar, Tennessee. Her father was one of the pioneers of that sec¬ 
tion. She was graduated from the Patapsco Institute and later married Napoleon, son of Dr. Duncan Hill of 
Murray county, Tennessee. Mrs. Hill’s greatest work was the successful rearing of four children to useful 
citizenship. They are Napoleon Lee Hill, deceased, Frank Hill and Mrs. C. N. Grosvenor, of Memphis; and Mrs. 
A. J. Hodgson of Waukesha. Like all successful mothers, Mrs. Hill has at heart the spirit of universal 
motherhood, and this led to her mothering the Junior Beethoven Club, composed of very young musicians. 
She has done much also for the Beethoven Club and is honorary president of that organization. She built 
the Woman’s Building of Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. Hill celebrated their golden wedding July 8, 1908. Mrs. Hill 
has traveled extensively in her own native country. She is an active member of the First Presbyterian church 
of Memphis. 


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Jfltss Sima Houisie Jlamsiep 

Alma Louise Ramsey, daughter of the Rev. Edward B. Ramsey, grand¬ 
daughter of the pioneer preacher and poet Ferdinand L. Steel, was edu¬ 
cated at the Institute, Jackson, Tenn., and Higbee School, Memphis. Care¬ 
fully trained to become a pianoforte teacher by Mrs. Minnie Hannah 
Gordon from the schools of Germany and by Professor Ernest Hawke on 
the pipe organ, also in the Chicago Schools of Music. Miss Ramsey has 
succeeded in establishing a class in Memphis distinguished for well- 
grounded comprehension of harmony and love of the best in the classics. 
Her indomitable energy and painstaking methods have stimulated her 
pupils to do good work for which she thinks like others,—school authori¬ 
ties should allow credits to stimulate in them a love for the arts. She 
hopes for more active co-operation on the part of the public with the 
musicians for a higher standard for Memphis. “Not how much, but how 
well” is her motto. 



JfflisS Pelle Comers Wa be 


Jltesi £s>u£ie looker 

Miss Susie T. Booker is a native of Memphis, daughter of the late 
Wm. J. Booker and Kate M. Avery, whose families were among the first 
settlers in Memphis. Miss Booker began her musical studies at the age 
of 7. Graduating from the public schools of this city. Miss Booker went 
to Cincinnati, where she entered the College of Music, studying with Brahm- 
Vandenburg, a pupil of Leschetizsky. To further prepare herself for teach¬ 
ing, Miss Booker took two normal courses-—the Burrough Course of Music 
Study of New York and Detroit, of which she is a Certificate teacher. Other 
methods studied are the Effa Ellis Perfield and the Sherwood Method. She 
was a member of the Advanced Teachers’ Normal and Interpreter Classes 
of Ernest Hutcheson, of Berlin. Miss Booker confines herself to no par¬ 
ticular method, but takes from all what she deems to be best. She is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church and the Beethoven Club. 


For tw T enty-seven years organist in the First Presbyterian church is 
a splendid record of a beautiful life work—a w'ork of uplift for her fellow- 
man—a service more splendid than any given on battlefield for country’s 
sake. Miss Wade is a musician of real merit, one who lives the story told 
by the keys, whether a minor solo, or some peaceful quiet chord, tells of 
a quiet restfulness understood by few, yet heard by many. In 1902 Miss 
Wade spent the summer as the pupil of Alexandre Guilmant, the famous 
organist, and is a member of the Guilmant Club. She was, later, a pupil 
of Wager Swayne, and was most successful, bringing added honors home 
to America. 

In her beautiful studio one finds the keynote to her character—har¬ 
mony. To claim her for a teacher is a privilege, as w r ell as an advantage 
unsurpassed. Miss Wade has a strong personality, a winning, lovable 
way, and a character that is indeed a tribute to womanhood. 


JiltSS Jf lorence $Ulep 

Miss Riley is considered one of the finest artists, not only in the City 
of Memphis, but in the South. Her work is strictly a work in itself. In 
the field of classical, iesthetic, national, gymnastic, folk and modern ball 
room dancing, she has received the very highest encomiums trom critics 
whose good opinion is a very valuable asset. For several seasons she has 
conducted the Nineteenth Century Club class in gymnastic and pictur¬ 
esque folk dancing. Her work is a labor of love, and in several instances 
where children w r ere involved, she has saved them from life-long invalid¬ 
ism, the result of paralysis. e 

Her beauty, grace and lovable disposition endears her to the hearts ot 
all who know her, and Memphis is justly proud to number among her 
women of talent this charming representative of the poetry of motion. 



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JUrs. Jfranfe Jf aefjrman 

Vivia Nelle, daughter of the late Jacob Sturla, grew to 
womanhood among the school girls of Memphis, in which city 
she received her grammar school education at St. Patrick’s 
School. Later she married and made her permanent home 
not far from the place of her nativity. Mrs. Faehrman is 
a musician of superior talent, and sang for nine years in 
Sacred Heart and St. Peter’s Churches. She is a communicant 
of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. She is an active and 
valued member of the Beethoven Club and has held the office 
of corresponding secretary of that organization of talented 
women. She is a member of the Wednesday Musical Club, 
and much of its reputation and success is due to her talent. 
Mrs. Faehrman is a member also of the largest club in Mem¬ 
phis—the active and progressive Nineteenth Century Club. 
While a believer in political equality for women, she has 
never identified herself with the suffrage organization. Mrs. 
Faehrman has traveled extensively, both in America and in 
Europe, and has many souvenirs of her foreign travel, in her 
home. She is interested in all that uplifts humanity and 
lends her sweet voice, charming personality and her gener¬ 
ous purse whenever the opportunity makes it possible for 
such acts of hers to help the less fortunate. At home she 
lives a sensible, practical life on her little farm on Highland 
Avenue. 


iilrs. Jflarte #reentooob Corbett 

One of the sweetest singers of the Southland—Mrs. Worden stands 
today in the very foremost ranks of musicians. Her magnificent voice 
has been heard to splendid advantage not only in the South, but in 
Eastern and Northern cities, where she has been the especial guest of 
musical clubs. 

Before her marriage she toured the South and West as prirna donna 
of several well-known opera companies, meeting with marked success. 
The citizens of Charleston, S. C., presented her with a magnificent 
diamond cross as an evidence of their appreciation and esteem. 

Mrs. Worden has worked and studied hard to obtain her present splen¬ 
did success, not only in this country, but with the Masters in the Old 
Country, and yet despite the heights w'hich she has reached, her hand is 
ever held out to those less fortunate—a helping hand whose friendly 
clasp many have known. As woman, artist and teacher, she has no 
superior. 




jfflrs. ©. jtludjler 

Elizabeth Leigh Ford was born in New Harmony, Indiana, the mother 
city of that blend of the artistic temperament with altruistic service 
known as the Woman’s Club, for it was there that the first woman’s club 
in America was organized. It soon became a noticeable fact that she 
possessed a perfectly wonderful voice. Miss Ford won a scholarship at 
Chicago Musical College for having the most beautiful natural voice, and 
Madame Nordica was so charmed with Miss Ford’s voice that she gave 
her lessons and predicted a great future. She continued under the finest 
artists of America and Europe, and in June, 1902, became the wife of 
O. H. Muehler, a prominent and successful planter and business man. 
Mrs. Muehler has pleased the most critical audiences in opera, concert 
and church, and has one of the largest vocal classes in the South. She 
is a member of the Episcopal Church and is very popular socially and 
Memphis is justly proud of her. 


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9tms> of tfje 2lrt department 

By Miss L. Pearl Saunders, Chairman. 



HE department of art means to the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs just what 
it means to the individual club member, and through the club member just what it 
means to the town in which the club exists. 


Every town in the state fortunate enough to have a Federated club should feel the influ¬ 
ence of its interest in matters of art, through its efforts to make more beautiful the town, by 
its art exhibits, the offering of prizes to the school children, and by the placing of good pic¬ 
tures upon the schoolroom w r alls. 

If every club in the state realized its opportunity to assist in creating a state-wide inter¬ 
est in and appreciation for w r orks of art it would be but a short while before Tennessee 
would stand in the front ranks with states which are doing most for a finer, higher civiliza¬ 
tion. As an investment, the giving of time, means an effort for the benefit of the people, 
it can not be equaled. It is like the quality of mercy, “It is twice blessed.” It blesses “him 
that gives and him that takes.” , 

A great w T ork of art is peculiar in that it belongs to humanity at large. It can not be 
held within the bounds of the nation to wfliich it owes its existence. A nation or an individ¬ 
ual may act as custodian, but the world will finally claim its share whether or no. Even 
the artist can not claim absolute ownership, once he has created a thing of beauty or mean¬ 
ing. 

The w r onderful picture galleries of Europe, the palaces, the great cathedrals, belong in 
part to the poorest American, who loves them with appreciation, and the whole world mourns 
its loss when one is marred or destroyed. 

So an investment of time and money in better art education for the people is not 
wholly an unselfish one. Neither is it foolish investment for the individual. The time has 
passed when the poor artist sits starving in the garret through lack of work to do. 

There is a great demand for art w T orks of all kinds and grades, from the beautiful illus¬ 
trations of Edmund du Lac to the comic supplement of the new spaper, from mural decorations 
by Abbey or Violet Oakley to billboards, art posters, stamps and breakfast food labels; from 
magnificent portraits by Sargent to the designing of costumes, fabrics and w r all paper; from 
the master bookbinding of Marguerite Duprez Lahey to illustrated post cards, such as those 
by George H. Lord, writer of cards of greeting at the rate of $20 per w r ord, some of the cards 
making a record sale of a million copies in a single season, bringing to the publishers over 
$50,000. 

Art and literature seem to have formed a partnership in many w r ays—each doing its part 
tow r ard entertaining and instructing the public. 

It seems to me the Federation could not engage in a broader or wider field of endeavor 
than that of helping to spread a knowledge of art. It is such a practical thing and such a help 
to the other departments of the Federation. 

A health and civics campaign, for example, w r ould lose much of its effectiveness without 
the use of drawings and photographs to paint a moral more clearly than w r ords can do. 

An interesting book is made much more interesting by having beautiful illustrations, 
wiiile a stupid one is often read merely to see what the pictures are about. 

The members of the Mothers’ Club know well that the best way to entertain a child and 
keep him out of mischief is to give him something to do with his hands—something to 
make what he believes to be beautiful and hopes to be useful, to paraphrase William Morris, 
though usually both hopes are vain. 

If art w r ere merely a matter of painting a picture, the making of statues or the design¬ 
ing of buildings, then, perhaps, it ought not be quite so important that every man, woman and 
child should have a working knowledge of it. But it is more than that—it is a language. 

It is the language by which w r e express the emotion. It is an added tool with which to 
face the problems of life. It is a key with which to unlock the store-house ot happiness. 

Is it then not worth while to place this opportunity within reach of every child in the 
state? 

This, and nothing less, is the ambition of the art department of the Tennessee Federation. 


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domett Srttsits! of ^Tennesisice 


AVENT, MRS. FRANK, Nashville, Tenn.—Studied at New York School of Art, the Julian Academy, LaZar and 
ot iers, I aris, Portrait and landscape painter. Paintings owned by collectors and individuals throughout 
the South. 

CONLEY, MRS. SARA WARD, Nashville, Tenn.—Painter and teacher. Studied in Paris in Julian Academy, 
with Bridgman and others. Designer of Woman’s Building, Tennessee Centennial. Decorative and por¬ 
trait painter. 

COWAN, MISS SARAH, formerly of Nashville, now of New York City—Studied at New York School of Art, 
with Dow at Columbia University, Art Students’ League, New York; with Chase, DuMond and Mora; 
Julian Academy, with Madame LaFarge, and Steinlin, Paris. Member of American Society of Miniature 
Painters; Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. 

ELLISON, MISS FRANCES, Nashville, Tenn.—Pupil of Miss Sanders’ School of Art and Design, Nashville; win¬ 
ner of White Medal in this school, and a year’s scholarship in Art Students’ League of New York. Illus¬ 
trator and landscape painter. Teaching in Athens College, Athens, Ala. 

GATTINGER, MISS MINNIE, Nashville, Tenn.—Studied with George Dury, Nashville; Philadelphia Academy of 
Fine Arts; with Milm Ramsey, Philadelphia; DeLacuse Academy, Paris; with DaSar in Brittany, and 
Bachet and Fleury. Among distinguished portraits, The Consul’s Daughter, Miss Gowdy, in Salon of 1900, 
which received honorable mention from the French government; Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee; United 
States Capitol in Washington; Vice-President, Jas. S. Sherman; Mrs. E. W. Cole, Mrs. Jas. E. Bradford; 
President Nashville Art Association; Bishop Galloway of Mississippi; one for Vanderbilt University and 
one for University of Mississippi. Paintings owned by Nashville Art Association, Centennial Club of 
Nashville, and many private collectors. Presented gold medal by Nashville Art Association. 

RAINS, MISS ZARELDA, Chattanooga, Tenn., now of New York.—Studied in New York and abroad. Now 
teaching in New York School of Art. 

SANDERS, MISS L. PEARL—Studied in Art Institute, Chicago, Art Students’ League, New York; Charles Haw¬ 
thorne, Freer and abroad; winner of Chase prize in France, director of School of Art and Applied Design, 
Nashville. Chairman of Art for Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs; second vice-president of Nash¬ 
ville Art Association. Work purchased by Nashville Art Association, Centennial Club, Thomas McCrory 
Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution for Continental Hall, Washington; Tennessee Historical Associ¬ 
ation, and many private collectors. 

SAWRIE, MRS. MARY BANG, Nashville, Tenn.—Miniature painter; studied in New' York, for two years in 
Paris; winner of gold medal in Paris. Among miniatures painted, Mrs. Leslie Warner, Dr. W. G. Ewing, 
Mrs. Joseph Thompson. 

WILEY, MISS CATHERINE, Knoxville, Tenn.—Studied in New York and abroad. Paintings purchased by 
collectors in New' York and throughout the South. Seymore Thomas in Holland. Taught in Peabody Col¬ 
lege for Teachers for fourteen years. 

GOODWIN, MISS LAMIRA, Nashville, Tenn.—Director of Art at Ward-Belmont College, Nashville. Studied 
with John Longman, Nashville; New'York School of Art, with Chase, DuMond, Louis Mora; at Columbia 
University, New York; the Colorossi Academy, Paris; with Richard Miller, Paul Bartlett, Morrisset, Caspe 
Lucchio. Grand Chumiere, Madame LaFarge, miniature; Miss Overbeck, New York. Pottery and design. 

HERGESHEIMER, MISS ELLA S.—Studied at Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia School of Design 
for Women, Colorossi, Paris; Prinet, Mucha, Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, and in Spain. Winner 
of first perspective prize, first anatomy prize, first landscape prize, first Tappan prize for portraiture. 
One Thousand Dollar European scholarship prize, in Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. Portrait painter, 
among notable portraits. Bishop McTyeire, Gov. Patterson, Mrs. Guilford Dudley, president of the Equal 
Suffrage Association, Dr. Frank Gaines, president Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ala.; Miss Nannette Hop¬ 
kins, dean of Agnes Scott College., 

McCORMACK, MRS. NANNIE MAI, Nashville, now of Chicago.—Studied with Mrs. Willie Betty Newman, 
Nashville; in St. Louis; Art Institute, Chicago. Commissioned Carmack statute to be placed at entrance 
of Capitol Grounds, Nashville. Secretary of Western Society of Sculptors. 

NEWMAN, MRS. WILLIE BETTY, Nashville, Tenn.—Studied Cincinnati Art School, received Thirty-five Hun¬ 
dred Dollar Scholarship, Julian Academy, Paris. Honor 1893 competing in drawing from the nude in the 
men’s class, with Benjamin Constant, Gene Paul Laurens, Bongereau, Ferrier. 

WILKES, MISS SUSAN, Nashville—Studied at Ward Seminary, Nashville; Art Student’s League, of New' 
York. Successful landscape painter and illustrator. 

KINNEY, MISS BELLE, Sculptor, formerly of Nashville, now of New York—Winner of commission in competi¬ 
tion for monument to women of the South; a copy of which is to be erected in every Southern state; 
statue of Jere Baxter of Nashville, and other important commissions. 

YANDELL, MISS ENID, Sculptor.—Studied in New York and abroad; Rodin, in Paris. Has executed many 
important commissions, including the John W. Thomas statue in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tenn. 


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TOje Conserbatton department of ttie ^ennee»siee Jfeberatton 

By Lalla Block Arnstein, Chairman. 


Department ot Conservation in the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs is com- 
1 j paratively new, being developed only within the past three years. It has been of pro¬ 
gressive, substantial growth, and where but one club studied conservation in the 
beginning, now more than halt of the clubs embody at least one program at their meetings 
for the study and uplift of Conservation. 


Through the clubs, the Women of the Tennessee Federation are gaining a better knowl¬ 
edge and a fuller realization ot our natural resources and the manner in which they affect 
their lives. 


They have aroused themselves to the study of and to the conservation of all the lavish 
wealth which surrounds them, knowing full well that the prosperity of Tennessee depends 
directly on the energy and intelligence with which our natural resources are used. 

A great geologist once said: “The nations that have coal and iron will rule the world.” 
We know he must have had Tennessee in mind when making this remark, for this great state 
is doubly blest with both. 

Club women are realizing that we have no more valuable agency than the scenic beauty 
of our forests, of our mountains, of our rivers, that they should not be mutilated or disfig¬ 
ured, even in case of necessity, and we are working hand in hand with every official in the 
state to preserve and to conserve these works of nature. 

Their economic value, as well as their estheic value appeals to us. We know that the 
lives of people are beautified physically, mentally and morally by contact with the things 
of beauty and interest in the outdoor world; and, therefore, the clubs are using all their influ¬ 
ence in working for recreation places out of doors, for parks and play grounds. The study 
of our National Parks has also been introduced into many of our clubs. We have aided in 
the preservation (through influencing our senators and representatives in Washington) of sev¬ 
eral of the National Parks and natural beauties such as Hetch Hetchy Valley of California, 
and the wonderful Niagara Falls, which was about to fall a prey to commercialism; dealing 
thus with conditions that affect the lives of all of us. We are now using our best efforts 
through our senators and representatives, to pass the Kent bill, to establish a National 
Park Service in the Department of the Interior. This department shall be under a director, 
who shall be appointed by the secretary of the interior, and who shall have supervision, man¬ 
agement and control of the several national parks, national monuments, the Hot Springs 
Reservation in the State of Arkansas, and reservations of like character. 

In forestry, the work thus far has been more of an educational nature. We have been 
working with the forestry department of the state for fire protection for the next two years, 
asking the legislature for $3,000. The United States Forest Service will meet this appropria¬ 
tion with another $3,000.00, making $6,000.00 to be expended in this State for fire patrol of for¬ 
ests. In fact, wheresoever the Department of Conservation can assist the officials of any 
department of State it readily lends support. 

In bird protection and wild animal life the clubs are particularly active. We endeavor 
to enforce the laws, which are the best in any state in the union. In the public schools the 
club women are putting forth their best efforts to protect the birds and are using educa¬ 
tional methods along these lines. They are offering prizes to the children for the building of 
bird houses in both city and county schools grounds, while the interest of the Boy Scout has 
also been enlisted to prevent the shooting of birds. Under a recent law passed by the last legis¬ 
lature Tennessee is to establish a farm for propagating birds. In this, the Department of Con¬ 
servation has also assisted. 

The Chairman of Conservation and the clubs throughout the State are urging that all 
wild flowers on public highways and roads be left to flourish, while the school children are 
asked not to wantonly destroy them. Talks along these lines in county schools are being 
made to great effect. 

In the establishment of good roads, the Chairman of Conservation has made talks before 
the National Highway Association, and as Tennessee State Chairman of the Lincoln Tree 
Planting Committee, is bending every effort towards interesting the clubs in the planting of 
the Lincoln and Dixie Highways throughout the State. No active work has yet been accom¬ 
plished in the planting, though a plan is formulated and will, no doubt, be put into opera¬ 
tion within the coming year. 


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The Pin Oak has been chosen as the main tree, being rugged and vigorous, symbolic of 
the character of Abraham Lincoln. 

A talk on the planting of the Lincoln Highway was given by Mr. Chas. A. Keffer at the 
Tennessee State Federation meeting of Women’s Clubs, held in Chattanooga, May, 1916, 
(through the efforts of the State Chairman of Conservation), arousing great interest and 
enthusiasm. The women’s clubs are now urging the setting aside of one day in the year, to 
be known as State Arbor Day, which will aid in the planting of trees and shrubs and in 
beautifying the roads, school grounds and highways of this State. 

The State Chairman of Conservation, working through the Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, was instrumental in having him place before the State Board of Education the 
advisability and practicability of the teaching of conservation in the public schools of Tennes¬ 
see. The board passed favorably upon this matter and appointed a standing committee to 
foster it. In a personal interview with the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who 
is most enthusiastic in his support, he assured the Chairman that at the next school term a 
course of forestry would be introduced into the State Normal schools. No provision being 
made by the State for such a course, it must be introduced through the efforts and interest 
of the teachers. At present, however, nature studies and bird life are taught in many of 
the public schools, though they are not prescribed by the State Board of Education. 

In summing up, I should like to say that the Tennessee club women are not asleep by any 
means in conserving the natural resources of the State. They are evidencing a growing inter¬ 
est in every phase of conservation, and are taking up all projects that will accrue to the ben¬ 
efit of the state and the nation, for they realize that Tennesee, with her wealth of natural 
resources, will be one of the nation’s foremost states, and therefore they wish to educate 
themselves and the coming generation, to the appreciation of, and the value of Conservation. 



A Glimpse of Mountain Scenery. 


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W. <£. Ha cep 

A woman of that potent charm which lingers long after 
one has left her presence, Mrs. Lacey is the ideal mother, 
and the loyal friend. Born in Sardis, Panola County, Missis¬ 
sippi, she left her native state when but four years of age, 
spending all the early years of her life among her father’s 
people, the Ballentines, of Pulaski, Tennessee. As Miss Ade¬ 
laide Ballentine, she was an honor pupil of Patapsco Insti¬ 
tute, Ellicott City, Maryland, and as both maid and matron 
visited various parts of the United States. Mrs. Lacey is 
deeply interested in Child Welfare and Mountain Settlement 
Work. Some few' years ago, she took active interest in the 
Cosmopolitan Book Club of Memphis, and for some several 
years past has been an honored member of the Nineteenth 
Century Club. Mrs. Lacey has lived in the Bluff City for the 
past twenty-six years. Her photo shows her with her first 
grandson in her arms. She is a member of the Methodist 
Church, and takes a great interest in the poor, not only of 
her own creed, but whenever and wherever she finds them. 


jHr3. Carrie 3P. Vanhorn 

A pioneer teacher of Tennessee. Educated in the schools of Indiana. 
Taught there five years. In 1869 married John VanHorn, of Butler 
County, Ohio. They moved to Shelby County in January, 1874. Here 
she continued her chosen profession. Found the schools in a chaotic 
condition. No uniform text books. No graded system. No teachers’ asso¬ 
ciations. It seemed the people w r ere asleep on the school question. The 
“Go as you please” idea prevailed. Negroes were elected for school 
directors, who could hardly sign their names. She w'as one of the prin¬ 
cipal teachers that helped organize and carry on the first Teachers’ Asso¬ 
ciation in Shelby County, headed by Dr. Henderson, the County Super¬ 
intendent. 

She has lived to see the most miraculous improvements. We now have 
all over the county magnificent brick and stone school buildings. Equipped 
w'ith all modern improvements, and taught by Normal-trained teachers. 




jMrfi. JfflL P. Srirstein 

(Lalla Block) 

Tennessee is the adopted State of Mrs. M. B. Arnstein. She having 
been born and reared in Texas. Mrs. Arnstein received her early educa¬ 
tion in Galveston, going later to New York, where she received private 
instructions from the best educators. She served for a number of years 
as president of the Alumnae Association of Galveston. After going to 
Knoxville to make her home, Mrs. Arnstein w r as elected to the presidency 
of the “Writers’ Club.” And during the years she served as president, 
the club met in her home. She has had exceptional advantages to study 
and travel abroad, and is one of the most cultivated and talented women 
in this State. She has been interested in conservation, especially as 
regards Tennessee, and as chairman of this department in the Federation 
she has done much good work. Mrs. Arnstein is a splendid speaker and 
is often invited to take a place on the programs of many important meet¬ 
ing held throughout the State. 


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JUrs. 3Fofjn 0. Jflautt 

Lulu Eddins was born in Memphis, finished High School and later married John O. Flautt. Two children 
were born. When the daughter had become the wife of Holmes Sherard and the son had finished Washington 
Lee University, Mrs. Flautt bought a farm, and in five years her five acres in figs brings her an income of 
twenty-five hundred dollars. She has become an active member of the Nineteenth Century Club, Beethoven 
Club, Harvey Mathes Chapter, Ladies’ Memorial, Suffrage League, and mission work at the poor house. She 
has for ten years been active in the Junior Memorial Association. She belongs to the Cumberland Presbyte¬ 
rian Church. Mrs. Flautt is one of the prime movers in getting a market house in Memphis on the site where 
the old Court House stood. In her scheme of life—through childhood, girlhood, love, marriage, motherhood 
and then the world and its more diversified activities of club and social and business life—Mrs. John O. Flautt 
of Memphis, Tennessee, sets an example worthy of emulation of women everywhere. 


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prison Reform 



HILE we have no Hope Hall in Tennessee, we have an association that is doing simi¬ 
lar work, and doing it well. This organization is known as the Southern Howard 
Association, practically founded hy Mrs. Jarnigan, of Chattanooga, with the assist¬ 
ance ol men whose wide experience in this field has been of untold benefit. 


Theii work is not theoretical, for they have been in the heart of the great gloomy pris¬ 
ons, and their viewpoint is that of the cell. All they know of the great, sad problem that casts 
its shadow so much further than the high walls of prison they have learned from those for 
whom they work, and their great joy in every labor is the knowledge that “the boys” are 
with them. In prison parlance “the boys” is used instead of the hated word “Convict,” which 
is always associated with the sound of clanging chains and shuffling lock-step, things of the 
past in Tennessee. In their work they have learned how, in the great, still, gloomy prison, 
where over a thousand men are locked aw T ay in their narrow' cells, many lay awake, and 
they have been told how, in the darkness and stillness of night, an awful, unearthly shriek 
will ring through the galleries—a cry that will make the strongest man tremble. Never in 
life elsew'here is there a cry so heart-rending and blood-curdling, for it is the cry of a soul 
awake in its anguish. Human hearts are strangely sensitive things. Day by day w r e learn 
that kindliness breaks down barriers preachment or argument would only cause to close the 
tighter. Could there be greater kindness than a cheering word, or a helping hand stretched out 
to those who grope in the lonely darkness of a convict’s cell? 


I he Prison Retorm workers, or in other words, the Southern Howard Association, 
would do away with solitary confinement, shackles, etc., if it w'ere possible, but this being 
not possible, in this day, they do the next best thing in trying to remove the chains that bind 
the souls of men and women in perpetual bondage. The need, the crying necessity of this 
w T ork can only be known entirely to the man who has found it. Generally, the people of the 
w r orld at large put down the man or woman behind the bars as “no good,” and dismiss the 
subject with indifference. In reality, the real punishment of the prisoner commences 
after the liberty he has longed for comes. The day he looked forward to arrives, he steps 
out into the world a man, alone in the crow r d, marked, branded, yet not entirely alone, for 
he has chained to him a corpse—his dead past. At the time success seems almost within his 
grasp, his past arises like an evil spirit and drags him down into the mire again. Kismet! 
He drifts back into his only home—the prison. If you w 7 ere on the inside, in the dead of 
night, my friend, you, too, w r ould hear that awful cry of the tortured soul—that involuntary 
wail that makes even the night w 7 atch shrink—the soul crying out against its murder—yearn¬ 
ing for a better life, groping in the dark, just missing the Father’s hand. 


A little investigation will soon convince the most skeptical that of all work of altruistic 
nature carried on in the world today, that of prison reform stands out pre-eminently. Our 
ow r n penitentiary at Nashville is a living exponent of this doctrine. Prison reform, in a pion¬ 
eer w r ay, has entered there. The stripes are gone, the number hidden on the pocket, the 
men spoken to as men, not as outcasts. Self-respect creeps back, recreation hours are occu¬ 
pied mostly in reading, books being obtained from the prison’s splendid library. The 
prisoners are healthy, contented, even happy while they work. Their friends may 
call to see them at stated times, and now' w'hen little children enter prison gates 
to see fathers or brothers, they do not see them in the hated stripes. The removal of 
this humiliating garb has done far more on the uplift road for the unfortunates of this 
state than all the tracts ever published. Rebellion is removed, and there is at least a fight¬ 
ing chance to make good. 

In a quiet way, the Southern How'ard Association, of Chattanooga, has done a great 
deal for those who have needed their help, and they will continue to do so, for the members 
under the splendid direction of Mrs. Jarnigan and the secretary, Mr. Menzler, are heart and 


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soul in, and for the work of prison reform. The aim of the Southern Howard Association 
is to imestigate the causes and sources of crime, to ameliorate conditions of prison life 
and improve prison administration, and, perhaps, most important of all, to aid and encour¬ 
age the pi isoners alter their discharge. Much has already been accomplished along these 
lines in Tennessee, and Mrs. Jarnigan, through her official connection with this association, 
as well as her private activity, has been foremost in the work. As a result of the 
movement bills were passed by the state legislature of 1913, enacting probation, inde¬ 
terminate sentence and parole laws. Mrs. Jarnigan has also established a small mission 
in Chattanooga, conducted and supported by her personally, where she receives and sup- 
poils discharged convicts until she can secure them employment and start them upon the 
load ot honest and honorable living. The work has already received practical demonstra¬ 
tion, and Mrs. Jarnigan has aided a number of men recently released from prison, and 
afforded them the encouragement and the practical help which has enabled them to make a 
new start in life. Her work in this direction has received the highest commendation through¬ 
out Tennessee, and among women who are working for the general welfare, she has per¬ 
haps chosen and made a practical success out of one of the most important departments in 
the whole field of social effort. 


3fubentle Courts 


things ofttimes lead to momentous results, as has been verified in the Juvenile Court of Mem- 
phis. Originating in first a discussion, and later, a movement by the mothers of the Nineteenth Cen- 
tury Club, six years ago, it has become the most complete institution of its kind in the country. It 
owns its own home, has its own private school and its Manual Training and Domestic Science depart¬ 
ments. Of all work accomplished by women in the State of Tennessee, the most direct good comes from that 
of the Juvenile Court. It takes hold of the boys or girls before they become hardened criminals—before the 
real iron of the underworld of crime and immorality enters and sears their souls. In many cases the air of 
bravado is assumed to hide the fear in the boyish heart—the shame and sorrow of the girl—so many times 
the girl without a mother. It is the one work which calls for heart-interest—a real love for humanity and a 
genuine desire to help them to better, brighter days. To make it successful, one must be able to go down in 
the depths with the girl or boy, to feel all they have felt, and then to be able to make them w T ant to lead better 
lives. Until this is accomplished, rules, regulations and all else are a farce, accomplished by force alone, and 
gone when that pow'er is removed. During its six years of existence, the Memphis Juvenile Court has cared for 
12,000 children, and few times have the officers failed in their efforts at reformation. Sometimes they have 
encountered types of feeble-minded children, and these are the real problems, for the state does not provide 
for its little folks thus afflicted. Many times cures could be readily effected, and the cloudy little brain made 
clear and active. 

Nashville has a detention home and a splendidly equipped juvenile court, through which have passed 
hundreds of children who have received practical benefits. Knoxville club women spent much time in agita¬ 
tion before realizing their dream of a juvenile court, but three years’ experience with it have proven its great 
w T orth. Chattanooga also has a juvenile court, doing practically the same work as the other courts in the 
state. 

The wife and child abandonment bills, introduced bj r Mr. Julian Straus of Memphis, and passed by the 
legislature of 1915, have greatly helped the juvenile courts, for it is through these bills that juvenile court 
judges are brought into contact wdth a class of people from whom spring the large majority of children brought 
before the juvenile courts of the state. These bills provide that the husband and father must provide for the 
wife and children, and it is in the pow-er of the juvenile judge to say how much money the man, who would 
abandon his wife and family, must pay into the court for their support. The child desertion bill makes any 
person, legally chargeable with the care and custody of a child under sixteen years of age, amenable. This 
includes guardians as w'ell as parents, which is very necessary at times. Both acts make it a felony for 
defendants to leave the state, thus insuring that they may be returned to the jurisdiction of the court, which 
would be impossible w r ere the offense classed as a misdemeanor. 

Through the enactment of these laws the wife and child are given every possible protection by the law. 


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Jlrs. &nna €. Jf ell 

(Police Matron) 

The work of the Police Matron is a work that is so far-reaching in its effect, yet so quietly accomplished, 
that few' realize even in the most remote way what it really means, or how much good results from this 
office. Depot and Travelers’ Aid Matrons' are very necessary to have, yet few cases are handled by them that 
are not also handled in some phase or other by the Police Matron. All day and far into the lone watches of 
the night Mrs. Anna Fell has for five years been at her post of duty at the Central Police Station, receiving 
wayward and stranded women and girls, trying by kindness to persuade some to leave the Great White Way of 
failure, trying to cheer others on to where Hope shone brightly in the clearing, with the darkness all behind. 
Mrs. Fell is the second Police Matron that Memphis has known. During her regime she has fed the hungry, 
clothed the naked, tended the sick, and even buried the dead. And more—for there is many a girl safe now 
in her far-away home who, except for the watchful, efficient work of Matron Fell, would have met a fate far 
worse than death. Pale-faced, sin-laden women, and broken-hearted girls have sobbed out to her their story, 
and w r ere comforted as a mother would comfort. Every one of the many hundred women who have known 
Matron Fell speak of her in tones that tell of grateful love for kindness rendered w'hen days were dark, and 
ways w T ere long and lonely. You will find some of these girls safe in the shelter of the Good Shepherd fold. 
Others out in the world learning to fight the battle anew—and you’ll find them, too, in their old haunts of sin 
and sorrow'. But wherever they are, they w'ill always remember the sweet-faced, low-voiced matron, whose only 
words of censure were those of loving kindness for the ones on life’s hills astray. Exceptionally well fitted 
for the work of Police Matron, tactful, magnetic and of most ideal personality, it would be hard to conceive of 
a more efficient matron, or more beautiful Christian character than Mrs. Fell. 


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Jfubentle Court of jWempfns 

CHAPTER rich in humanitarian achievements has been written 
into Memphis history hy the Juvenile Court. 

The ideals of free government are perhaps better expressed 
through the Juvenile Court system than through any other agency. 
If the Juvenile Court stands for anything, it stands for the fullest 
freedom for the child, and that unhindered by parental, social or indus¬ 
trial restraint, he may work out his own salvation. 

Perhaps no other department of government was ever created with the 
view of having a certain duty to perform and of getting through with it. 

The Juvenile Court hopes to impress upon the human mind for all 
time to come that the child is entitled to a decent birth, a protected child¬ 
hood, an efficient education, steady work (if that is necessary) under safe 
conditions at a fair wage and daylight hours, a reasonably comfortable 
home life, protection from disease and crime. 

The state is in honor bound to guarantee a child these things. To see 
that children in large industrial centers, such as Memphis, get these 
advantages, the Juvenile Court was created. 

The Juvenile Court was born of a Utopian conscience. It has often had to resort to strenuous methods 
in making such impressions on the minds of neglectful parents. However, it refrains from doing the unpleas¬ 
ant unless it becomes necessary. 

The Memphis Juvenile Court is a model Juvenile Court. International experts such as Judge Harvey Baker, 
of Boston; Hastings H. Hart, of Russell Sage foundation; Bernard Flexner, an international authority on Juve¬ 
nile Court work; Alexander Johnson, of Vineland, N. J.; and many others say this. And it can be as well stated 
by the city’s leading public men, ministers, charity and social workers, heads of manufacturing establishments 
and business houses—and by hundreds of parents. 

Its special school plan has been wddely copied. The scheme, which has proved of such immense value to 
the future lives of the wards of the court, was originated by Mrs. Mary B. West, the very able superintendent 
of the Court. 

A miniature household—modern in every respect—is a splendid feature of the school w : ork which has 
received much favorable comment. The girl wards of the institution are taught household economics that they 
may make good wives; that they may become divorce-proof, so to speak. 

Mrs. West is a remarkable woman. Herself a mother of several children, she possesses such abundance 
of human love and kindness—and is so unselfish with it—that the very walls of the Court’s handsome build¬ 
ing, at the corner of Fourth street and Jefferson avenue, smile upon its tiny occupants and wrap about them the 
environment of ideal and home-like conditions. 

The Court would not be what it is wdthout Mrs. West’s guiding hands. She has done her work well. 

Two other figures loom high in the minds of those w T ho give so much thought to the Juvenile Court 
-—-Ex-Mayor Edward H. Crump and former Judge William J. Bacon. Mr. Crump, when first made mayor, took 
advantage of a state act permitting the establishment of such a Court. Mr. Bacon, now Criminal Court clerk 
for Shelby county, was one of its first judges. He possessed every qualification for the work and unselfishly 
exerted his energy to promote it. 

The Court is an established institution in Memphis. It is one of the main arteries leading to the city’s 
throbbing heart. It supplies human warmth and sympathy to homeless and neglected children. It does more. 
By an act written by the last legislature the Court has become one of domestic relations, having jurisdiction 
over wife and child abandonment. Negligent husbands are made to do their dutj’. The Court stands sponsor. 

One of the youngest judges in America now presides over the Court—over, perhaps, the destinies of hun¬ 
dreds of boys and girls—William M. Stanton. At the age of 23, he was speaker of the state’s low’er legislative 
branch; at 25 a judge. 

Judge Stanton has displayed a sympathy for the juvenile delinquents that bids fair to gne him the repu¬ 
tation held by Judge Bacon—the best outside Denver, and equal to any in Denver. 



Mrs. Mary B. West. 


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Cennesisee’ss Congress of JHotfjerS 

By Mrs. Eugene Crutcher, 

President Tennessee Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers’ Association. 


BRIEFLY outline the history of the Tennessee Congress of Mothers and Parent- 
Teachers Association, it is proper to refer to the National Congress of Mothers and 
Parent-Teachers’ Association, which have been such potent factors in the welfare of 
the present-day children. 


I he aim of the organization is, to raise the standard of home life, to develop wiser, bet¬ 
ter trained parenthood, to give young people, ignorant of the proper care and training of 
children, opportunities to learn this, that they may better perform duties of parenthood. 

1 o bring into closer relations the home and the school, that parent and teacher may co-op¬ 
erate intelligently in education of the child. 

1 o surround the childhood of the whole world with that loving, wise care in the impres¬ 
sionable years ot life, that will develop good citizens, instead of lawbreakers and criminals. 

lo carry the mother-love and mother-thought into all that concerns or touches childhood 
in Home, School, Church, State or Legislation. 

To interest men and women to co-operate in the work for purer, truer homes, in the belief 
that to accomplish the best results, men and women must work together. 

To secure such legislation as will insure that children of tender years may not be tried 
in ordinary courts, but that each town shall establish juvenile courts and special officers, 
whose business it shall be to look out for that care which will rescue, instead of confirm 
the child in evil ways. 

To work for such probationary care in individual homes rather than institutions. 

To rouse the whole community to a sense of its duty and responsibility to the blameless, 
dependent and neglected children, because there is no philanthropy which will so speedily 
reduce our taxes, reduce our prison expenses and reduce the expense of institutions for correc¬ 
tion and reform. 


The work of the Congress is civic work in the broadest and highest sense, and every 
man or woman who is interested in the aims of the Congress is cordially invited to become a 
member and aid in the organized effort for a higher, nobler national life, which can only 
be attained through the individual homes. To this end one of our Tennessee mothers, who 
had child interest at heart, namely, Mrs. G. H. Robertson, of Jackson, who had kept up with 
the wonderful work being done, decided that for our Tennessee mothers to keep abreast of 
the times a Tennessee Branch of this great work was necessary, and accordingly after suffi¬ 
cient interest had been aroused, she called a meeting to be held in Nashville. So on Janu¬ 
ary 24th, 1911, this meeting was held in the Hermitage Hotel, and a new child was born to 
the Mothers’ Congress, when the Tennessee Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers’ Asso¬ 
ciation was organized. Mrs. Frederick Scholl, of Philadelphia, president of the National 
Congress, conducted the organization session, and the following officers were elected: Mrs. 
G. H. Robertson, president, Jackson; Mrs. L. Crozier French, vice-president-at-large, Knox¬ 
ville; Mrs. Ben W. Hooper, honorary vice-president, Nashville; Mrs. Thomas M. Scruggs, vice- 
president, West Tennessee, Memphis; Mrs. Eugene Crutcher, vice-president, Middle Tennes¬ 
see, Nashville; Mrs. S. A. Mynders, vice-president, East Tennessee, Knoxville; Mrs. Booker 
McKinnie, corresponding secretary, Jackson; Mrs. E. G. Buford, recording secretary, Nashville; 
Mrs. Joe Buford, treasurer, Nashville; Mrs. D. A. Cleague, auditor, Knoxville. 

The work was entered into from the very start with such zeal and enthusiasm that from 
its very infancy success was assured. The working plan for the state was modeled upon 
that of the National body. Committees were appointed to care for the various phases of 
child welfare work, and a campaign for the education of parents through the establishment 


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of parent-teachers clubs and mothers’ circles, was organized. This work has steadily pro¬ 
gressed, and has grown to such magnitude that the enthusiasm is most marked throughout 
the state. 

Results accomplished have been most gratifying and the state work has attracted such 
nation-wide attention as to bring the national congress to Nashville for its annual convention, 
which was held April 4-9, 1916, in the historic state capitol building. 

Conterences held in different parts ot the state have served to spread the interest in 
parent-teacher work, and the attitude of teachers generally is reported to be one of under¬ 
standing and hearty co-operation. The formation of councils, bringing together groups of 
parent-teachers associations in their own localities, was a marked feature of the year’s 
progress. 

So thoroughly has this work been demonstrated that today no school system is consid¬ 
ered complete without a well organized parent-teachers’ association. 

The five years have shown steadily increasing interest in the great educational and pro¬ 
tective work, for which the Congress of Mothers stands, and the growth in members and in 
power to serve mothers and children is very encouraging. 

Children’s playgrounds, gardens, infant milk depots, clinic work, the better babies’ move¬ 
ment, the widows’ pension bill and penny lunch rooms are among our contributions to 
humanity. 


TOje Visiting JSurses’ gtoouatton 

Cities are measured today more than ever by the happiness of their people, and that 
city is greatest which gives to its citizens the most in protection, education, recreation 
and beauty. Memphis, since 1909, has fostered a beautiful organization in the Visit¬ 
ing Nurses’ Association. In that year, a little band of earnest women undertook to sup¬ 
port a visiting nurse, and so well did they succeed that in 1910, Miss Simmons of Henry 
Street Settlement, N. Y., was brought to Memphis by the city, and put in charge of the 
work. In 1911, a second nurse, Mrs. Kathryn Heermans, now Mrs. Schulken, was secured 
in April and in July of the same year, two others were secured, Miss Rose Holmes and 
Miss Seay. In 1913 the Associated Charities was organized, and took over the work of the 
visiting nurse, Miss Simmons returning to New York and Mrs. Schulken having entire 
charge of a stafT of two. School nurses were increased to the number of six, the four new 
ones being Misses Beauchamp, Sample, Nichols, Drane, Baugh and Seay. There is now also 
an obstetrical nurse, Miss Kersh, and a tubercular nurse, Miss Conilleus. Two colored 
nurses are also employed. In connection with this association is the Children’s Tubercular 
Colony at the Fair Grounds, under the special direction of Mrs. Schulken, and in charge 
of Mrs. Effie Rhodes. Visits are paid here at least twice a week. The colony was founded 
in March, 1915, takes only incipient tubercular children, under fourteen, and is restricted to 
nineteen. Baby layettes are furnished by the Baby Friendly Society, and greatly facilitate the 
work of the nurse. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has its own staff of nurses, with 
Mrs. Zulah Brown as supervising nurse. All the work of the Visiting Nurses’ Association is of 
untold good, but best of all is its tubercular work in the children’s colony. There has 
been remarkable cures, in the little colony, which is mothered by a woman whose two 
little children were victims of the White Plague, one of whom has entirely recovered, 
and the other one almost well, owing to treatment at the colony. This little camp, or 
colony, was the evolution of the case of a tubercular child without home or care—a ver¬ 
itable little Samaritan, for it paved the way for many little comrades to find in loving care 
the health that should have been its heritage. 


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Mrs. Thos. M. Scruggs. 


Having demonstrated the value of Public Recreation, Mrs. Scruggs 
called a meeting of delegates appointed at her request by the Cotton 
Exchange, Merchants’ Exchange, Business Men’s Club and other civic 
bodies, at which meeting the Playground Association was organized, the 
following being elected officers and directors: President, Mrs. Thos. M. 
Scruggs; Secretary-Treasurer, C. Hunter Raine; Directors, Rt. Rev. Thos. F. Gailor, J. J. Shoemaker, Chas. O. 
Pfeil, Elizabeth Messick, J. A. Omberg, Jr., Z. N. Estes, Henry Craft, Paul Dillard, Newton C. Perkins, W. P. 
Metcalf, E. H. Crump, Rosa Lee, B. G. Henning. 


^^■^HIS Association, one of a series of child-welfare activities set in 
/ I motion by Mrs. Thomas M. Scruggs, was chartered August 30, 
1908. Previously (June, 1908), Mrs. Scruggs had succeeded in 
establishing the first demonstration playground on Brinkley Park, 
(old Market Square), funds for the equipment and supervision of this 
first public playground being raised by means of benefit baseball games— 
Lawyers vs. Doctors. For years this small, tenement-district park had 
been the rendezvous of a “gang” of disorderly boys who destroyed the 
benches and even the drinking fountain as often as repaired. By organ¬ 
izing the leaders into a “Playground Police,” headed by a “Chief,” each 
member distinguished by a bright metal star, Mrs. Scruggs changed dis¬ 
order into self-government, and the most unruly of the boys became 
upholders of “Fair Play” and zealous defenders of the smaller children. 
In the same year three other playgrounds were established in Overton, 
Gaston and Bickford Parks, the Park Commission paying for the equip¬ 
ment. 


Becoming at once an active agency for social advance, many child-welfare activities had their origin in 
the Playground Association, notably the Juvenile Court, a children’s ward in the City Hospital, a “Safe and Sane 
Fourth. In the summer of 1909, the Association purchased the bayou lot that forms the western boundary of 
the Vocational School grounds, as the site for a Public Playground and Natatorium, Miss Rosa Lee volunteer¬ 
ing to assume the cost of the lot (85,250), others subscribing $1,000, $500, and lesser sums. The withholding 
by the city (on the plea that the funds could not be spared from other purposes) of an appropriation of 
$6,000, granted the Playground Association in the Malone administration, has delayed the consummation of 
this project during the Crump administration. 

In justice to those whose efforts led to the establishing of the Juvenile Court, but who disclaim sponsor¬ 
ship of present methods, a brief summary of facts is given. 

The bill creating a Juvenile Court for Shelby County was drawn by a committee appointed by Mrs. 
Scruggs, S. O. Bates, Chairman, upon her election to the Presidency of the Playground Association. Mr. Bates 
later was elected to Legislature and introduced the bill prepared by this committee (viz.: Marion Griffin, 
Wassell Randolph, W. L. Terry and Mrs. Scruggs, the latter serving ex-officio), making the Court a branch 
of the Probate Court of Shelby County. After this bill had passed the House and been recommended for pas¬ 
sage by the Judiciary Committee, dominant political influences conspired to make the Court a branch of the 
City Police Court, with policemen probation officers. Although all authorities agree that any connection with 
a Police Court or other Criminal Court is a direct A’iolation of the fundamental principle of the Juvenile 
Court, it was with this paradoxical amendment that the Bates Bill became a law, April 27,1909. Three months 
later (July 29), no steps having been taken to open the Juvenile Court, Mrs. Scruggs went before the Legis¬ 
lative Council and was granted the appointment of a committee “to get the Court into operation without 
further delay,” Councilmen H. T. Bruce, J. T. Walsh and E. H. Crump constituting the committee appointed 
by Mayor Malone. Soon after. Commission Government went into effect, E. H. Crump becoming mayor. Mrs. 
Scruggs, with his authority, completed the necessary details, using forms sent by Judge Lindsey as models for 
the legal blanks and forms of record which she had printed, and obtaining fittings and furnishings for the 
Court and Detention Home from the County Court, then dismanteling the old Court House. The first ses¬ 
sion of Juvenile Court was held by Judge P. Harry Kelly, Jan. 26, 1910. When an ordinance was passed cre¬ 
ating an Advisory Board, Mrs. Scruggs was elected Chairman, and with the assistance of Dr. John Bell, Presi¬ 
dent Board of Health, inaugurated a system of medical inspection and physical record of all children brought 
to the Detention Home—a staff of the city’s best known specialists giving voluntary medical and surgical 
services. No provision having been made, however, for negro children, in August, 1910, with approval of 
Judge Kelly (the Mayor and all other Juvenile Court officials being absent from the city) Mrs. Scruggs rented 
the "house on Lauderdale street adjoining the home owned by Julia Hooks, a devoted and intelligent woikei 
for the uplift of her race, and with her co-operation, established the Detention Home for Negro children. 

Before expiration of her term of office, Mrs. Scruggs resigned from official connection with the Juvenile 
Court and organized the Children’s Protective Union, giving as her reason that under a police system which 
countenanced and collected toll from commercialized vice and lawlessness, intolerable wrongs were perpetrated 
upon helpless children in the name of the Juvenile Court,—embodying in the minutes of the Advisory Boaid 
numerous cases exemplifying these wrongs and recommending the remedy. Mayor Crump promptly authorized 
Mrs. Scruggs to put her recommendations into immediate effect, (Judge Kelly being also in cordial accord); 
they were vetoed, however, by a majority vote of the Advisory Board, (Mrs. West and Mrs. Pease) who 
declared themselves satisfied with existing conditions. Whereupon Mrs. Scruggs resigned. With her resigna¬ 
tion the Advisory Board ceased to keep official record and salary to Mrs. West replaced voluntary service. 


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J?asif)btlle Pop’s; Club 


BO\ S’ welfare work for newsboys and street boys was suggested by Mrs. Thomas M. Steger, in answer 
to an article published in The Christian Advocate, October 30th, 1902—“Wanted—A Substitute for the 
Saloon.” 

November 11th, 1902, there was printed in the Daily News, the suggestion by Mrs. Steger to estab¬ 
lish a home for the newsboys and street boys as the idea was that to commence with the young boy and give 
the boys some place or club where they would be made welcome and taught kindly cleanliness of body, 
speech, mind and soul. This idea of a Boys’ Club met with approval by some of the good people of Nashville, 
and by contributions enabled the officers (all women) of the “Boys’ Club” to open a few rooms, under a super¬ 
intendent, where the boys would be made welcome. 

The Boys’ Club was opened September 28th, 1903. From this small beginning has resulted an excellent 
Boys’ Club in 1916, under the care of some of the good men of Nashville, with Mr. Carter as superintendent. 
The ladies have retired from active work in the Boys’ Club. 

The officers and members of the Boys’ Club in their intercourse with the boys, found that when these 
young boys committed even a trivial crime, they were sent to the same courts, tried by the same Judges, sent 
to the same jails and penitentiaries as the adult criminals. So they determined to have Juvenile Laws and 
Courts in Tennessee, but to advocate enlightening the men of Tennessee about the Juvenile Court was very 
bard work for several years. The Boys’ Club brought in 1905, Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of Denver, to address 
the Tennessee Legislature on the subject of Juvenile Laws and Courts. Tennessee is indebted to the Nashville 
Boys’ Club, officers and members, for the establishment of Juvenile Laws and Courts in Tennessee. We, also, 
found that boys were sent to the penitentiary where they were made to wear the convict’s uniform. We felt 
that this was not right, that it was a stigma upon Tennessee that there was no place where a boy could be 
sent for reformation, so we determined to have a Reformatory for Boys, and after some years of hard work, 
we had the Legislature to make an appropriation. The first appropriation for “The Reformatory for Boys” 
was signed by Gov. Malcolm R. Patterson. The first appropriation in 1902, was $10,000. We advocated Medi¬ 
cal Inspection of Schools. Public School Buildings for Social Centers. So we have (the officers and mem¬ 
bers of the original Boys’ Club, established in 1903) the pleasure and gratification in 1916 of seeing our good 
works of Juvenile Courts, Reformatory for Boys established in Tennessee and many of the progressive works 
of which we were the advocates—“Pioneers.” 

The officers of the Nashville Boys’ Club for many years were Mrs. Thomas M. Steger, President; Mrs. 
Joseph H. Thompson, Vice-President; Mrs. Salkzcotter, Vice-President; Mrs. Alexander Fall, Treasurer, Miss 
Rora Orr, Secretary (after her death, Miss Meta Orr); Mrs. M. A. Spicer was first Secretary. 


Jubentle Court of Chattanooga 



URING the summer of 1910, the Pastors’ Association of Chattanooga, appointed a committee of its 
body to consult with the State officials regarding the establishment of a Juvenile Court. The offi¬ 
cials responded by appointing a joint committee of citizens and ministers, to select the Probation 
officer, salary to be paid out of the State treasury. Mr. Christian C. Menzler, graduate of the Chat¬ 
tanooga University, w'as chosen, and served as the first Chief Probation officer for four years. The 
Hon. Martin A. Fleming, City Judge of Chattanooga, has served gratis as Juvenile Court Judge since the court 
was established. 

The city provided separate offices for the Court, and a separate room for the detention of children. 

The Juvenile Association, composed of the foremost citizens of Chattanooga, was then formed, which 
assisted the Court greatly with moral and financial support. 

It also secured legislation in January, 1911, giving the Court adequate power and authority over all chil¬ 
dren under 16 years of age. The Court has now' two probation officers, both men—the city and county jointly 
providing the salaries. 

The City of Chattanooga spends annually $1,500.00 and the County of Hamilton $1,200.00 for the mainte¬ 
nance of the Court. An average of 550 children passed through the hands of the Court each year; 40 per cent 
of that number are placed in institutions, 40 per cent on probation, and 20 per cent are discharged. 

The personnel of the Court at present is: Hon. Martin A. Fleming, Judge; C. P. Pennybaker and C. B. 
Russell, Probation Officers. 

)t gtoanbonment Hato 

IFE desertion and child abandonment are as cancers to the social body. The desertion by a husband 
of a wife is not always chargeable to the former. In nearly 50 per cent of the cases, how'ever, the 
husband is to blame, because of his narrow foresight. 

Four laws regarding the abandonment of wives and children and non-support of the family were 
enacted by the 1915 legislature. These bills were first introduced in the 1913 legislature, but never came to 
a vote on account of the turbulent conditions which prevailed during much of that session. 

Two of the laws relate to the abandonment of wives, the law-s lodge the power in the judges of the Juve¬ 
nile Courts to grant warrants in proper cases for the arrest of the accused, and provides for trial by jury in 
the criminal courts, to avoid running counter to the constitution. Both the judge of the Juvenile and of the 
Criminal Court is given wide latitude in dealing with these cases and may fix the amount to be paid, the periods 
of payment, the bond to be required or allow the accused to be released without bond in proper cases. 

Two of the acts relate to leaving the state after abandoning or failing to provide, and in these cases the 
punishment is made a felony. This is done for the purpose of extraditing the accused. 

It is wife desertion cases caused by drunkenness, vagrancy, personal injury, etc., that the new power given 
the Juvenile Court works so well. 

The law is humane. It was conceived by former Juvenile Court Judge William J. Bacon, and is a monu¬ 
ment to the court and to the man. 

In the person of Mrs. Mary B. West, the court’s superintendent, the laws against wife desertion and child 
abandonment will be strictlv lived up to in so far as she has sufficient help to enforce them. 

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An old and honored family, and a career of successful individual enter¬ 
prise is represented in the person of Miss Ida O. Henry, poll tax collector 
of Shelby County. Miss Henry enjoys the personal esteem and confidence 
of every one with whom she comes in contact. She holds the unique 
position of poll tax collector—and has made a splendid success of it for 
the sake of the school children, and not from any aspiration to political 
fame. Aside from her work in this field. Miss Henry is devoted to church 
work, giving of her best to her friends in the Sunday school, as well as 
in the church proper. A gifted, magnetic personality coupled with an 
earnest desire to please even the lowdiest. Miss Henry counts her friends 
by the thousands—every one of whom are proud to say “she is the only 
woman poll tax collector in the country.” 


jUrsi. J9.1$. i^peerss 

Foremost among those who work quietly for the betterment of those less fortunate than they, is Mrs. N. 
W. Speers, who came to Memphis from Philadelphia, Pa., some nine years ago. Ever since her coming, Mrs. 
Speers has been a member of the board of directors of the Old Men’s Home, and the Home for Incurables. 
In her beautiful home, she has had many entertainments for the benefit of her pet charities, and has given both 
time and means for their welfare. Although by heritage she should be a Daughter of the American Revolu¬ 
tion, she prefers to list all her energy and ambition on the side of those who need them most. That she has 
chosen wisely is shown in her beautiful home life, and the hundreds to whom her coming is indeed a bless¬ 
ing. 


j$tr£. Albert J?. l^ompson 

Tennessee is indebted to Missouri for many charming women, who in 
their adopted home have made good in Literature, Art, Science and Music. 
But Mrs. A. N. Thompson, along with doing these things, has put her heart 
in the work for the Home for Incurables, and has made a wonderful 
record for herself. As Miss Fannie Beck, of St. Louis, her young lady¬ 
hood was a most charming and interesting period, but as a matron her 
work has been along most serious lines, although she has traveled exten¬ 
sively. 

Aside from her duties in connection with the King’s Daughters, she is 
very active in church work, is a member of the Pastor’s Aid and Mission¬ 
ary Society of the Second Presbyterian Church, of Memphis, and is a 
prominent member of Marion Circle. She has been active in every charity 
work in Memphis, but is more closely identified with the Home for Incur¬ 
ables, which she labored so hard to make a reality, and afterwards a per¬ 
fect institution. 


Jilts. Jf. Hatbam 

Jessie G. Swayne, daughter of Judge J. T. and Mary C. Porter Swayne, 
is one of Memphis, Tennessee’s own daughters. She W'as educated at 
Synodical College, Florence, Ala., later married F. S. Latham, and is the 
proud mother of three promising children. 

State Committee of Child Welfare Society, is President of Woman’s 
Board of Porter Home and Leath Orphanage, and Secretary of Parent- 
Teacher Association of Central High School. She has served twice as 
President of Local Union of Presbyterian Missionary Societies, twice as 
President of City Union of King’s Daughters, two years also as Secretary 
for the same organization, and for six years was chairman of badges on 
Flag Day. For tw'o years Mrs. Latham was President of Woman’s Civic 
Improvement Club of Evergreen, one of the most beautiful and fashion¬ 
able resident sections of Memphis. All Mrs. Latham’s work verifies the 
wisdom of the phrase “Get a busy person to do it,” for with all her other 
labors and responsibilities her every separate performance shows a best 
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to Putlb ®p i^ural Communities ^fyroucjf) Cooperative Clubs 

By Bessie R. Murphy, 

Director Woman’s Department, Bureau of Farm Development, Business Men’s Club, Memphis, Tennessee. 



HIS is an age and time of readjustment, change and restlessness. We hear a great 
deal about the ‘ Rural Problem,” the decline of rural life and “back to the farm” move¬ 
ment, and we often pause to ask “Why this readjustment ?” and “What will the end be?” 


\\ e think these conditions are new and that they are new problems for this civiliza¬ 
tion, but the truth is, this rural problem is as old as civilization, and rural community life 
has had its decline in all ages. It is well that our land is aroused over the decline of 
rural life, for, as in all other ages, this decline means the beginning of the decline of 
the nation, and we realize that on the solving of this problem of “back to the land,” our 
welfare as a nation depends. 


Why are we having this problem in America today? First of all, because of the city 
trend of our times. During the past generation we have been thinking of our cities, their 
social and industrial betterment. All our plans are made for their development—in fact, 
everything has been a tendency towards encouraging the country boys and girls to move 
to town and to think that only in the city can they win success. As a consequence, all 
have suffered. We are realizing that our very strength as a nation is depending on the 
same attention being given to the social and industrial welfare of our rural communities. 
We can talk and preach “Back to the farm,” “The boy and girl staying on the farm,” 
but it must be more than talk—we must make the farm and farm life more attractive, build 
up the farm from the social as well as the productive side. It is true that we must 
teach the care of the soil, but at the same time we must develop the care-taker. 

There are a great many forces today all working to prevent the rural decline, and 
we know we must have good roads, we must have consolidated schools, we must have 
systematized and scientific marketing, we must have conservation, we must have many things, 
but all these agencies are powerless to stop this decline of rural life until the great enemy of 
rural development has been overcome—that lack of co-operation, petty jealousy, and lack of 
community interests; it is the one factor today destroying our rural life. This first step in rural 
development must come from the community itself. Farmers can not co-operate with city or 
town forces until they co-operate at home. Rural life needs awakening, it needs larger ideals 
and visions beyond that of the little community, something new, something broader. Secure 
this community co-operation and it will be the nurturing spirit for all good things needed. It 
will make money and save money, it will get good roads, it will bring better schools, unite com¬ 
munities in matters of creed and will bring to the farmer all that progress demands for him. 
Securing this co-operative spirit we can turn our attention to those three great agencies 
of rural development—the home, the school and the church. 


It is true that the standard of agriculture can rise no higher than the level of the farm, 
and the farm no higher than the level of the home. We hear a great deal about the 
passing away of the rural home, but it is only passing through this period of readjust¬ 
ment, and out of this will come three things that will mark the rural home of the 
future—the farm homes will be more conven ent and sanitary, there will be more labor- 
saving conveniences and the life will not be a copy of city or town life, but will be distinct 
in itself. 


In passing a farm we can not help but get an idea of the character of the man who 
lives within, and especially is this true of his home. So many farmers live in dilapi¬ 
dated and unsanitary homes, looking forward to the time when they can retire from the 
farm, move to town and have a comfortable home. 

Commercialism has invaded even the rural home, the dollar mark often being seen 
on the front gate. If there is any life that a comfortable home means more to, if there 
is any one that should have a comfortable home, it is the farmer and his family. It 
means more to them than any one else, as the farmer is the only professional man that 
must live with his business. The farm home must be more convenient if we expect to 
keep the boy and girl on the farm, and if we expect the homemaker to look on her home 
as a haven of rest and not as a workshop of drudgery. It must have better heating and 
water system. Who more than the farmer needs and should enjoy a water system? Think 
of the weary steps that the homemaker takes to the pump, often two or three hundred yards 


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from the house, or at the spring down at the foot of the hill and the thousands of pails of 
water that must be carried into the house throughout the year. These inconveniences 
may seem small to the farmer, hut it is just such little things that when the young people 
on the farm return from school or a visit to town in homes with such conveniences, and then 

go back to coal oil lamps and the water bucket they determine “no farm life for me.” 

Another thing lacking in the rural home is proper sanitation. We think that the 

tanner s life is the most healthtul of all lives, but it is not so, it is greatly decreasing. We 

find unsanitary and unhealthful conditions in the country that would not be tolerated in a 
city. Laws are needed to require healthy living conditions in the country as well as in town. 

The modern farmer realizes the value of labor-saving devices on his farm but is often 
careless of labor-saving devices for his home. Many wives whose husbands use modern 
mowing machines, still use the old dash churn, and whose husbands use harrow carts, still 
use the old wash-board. There is many a woman today on the farm working under condi¬ 
tions in which Pharaoh suffered death in the Red Sea. She works from early morn until late 
at night, cooking, washing, ironing, caring for the children and often the livestock, and 
when the census man writes her name he writes “No occupation.” At the end of the farm 
year when the crops are all sold what share does this home-maker get for labor-saving 
devices or comforts tor her home? None. It goes for plows, barns, silos and other conven¬ 
iences for the farmer, and the little home-maker is left to battle another year with all the 
inconveniences. The rural problem will never be solved until the home and the home-maker 
comes in for its share of development. 

The rural school must take its turn in this readjustment age. In the past we have edu¬ 
cated, as we thought, the rural boy and girl to return to the farm with all their knowledge, 
but our education has failed, they have not returned to the farm. Our rural schools must 
educate along rural life and not city life. I believe in higher education for rural boys and 
girls, with all its advantages, but along with this “I love, you love, they love,—plural, we love, 
you love, they love,” should come “I farm, you farm, he farms,—plural, we farm, you farm, 
they farm.” We must have fewer schools, and better schools, better paid teachers,—teachers 
who are leaders in community life and whose home is a part of the school. Our rural schools 
should have a course in agriculture, a demonstration garden, teaching the use of modern 
labor-saving devices and implements. Girls in the rural schools should be taught home¬ 
making, how to plan and cook well-balanced meals, how to furnish and make her home 
attractive and how to select and make her wearing apparel. 

The rural church, like the rural school, has failed to adjust itself to changing needs. 
The rural church must answer its call, because in times past it has given the highest ideals to 
the world, and has ever been the leader in the uplift of mankind. The mission of the church 
has ever been to teach men that they were made in God’s image and for his glory, and that 
man is the “upward looking one” and not the ’’man with the hoe.” The rural church must 
not confine itself to a few hours of worship one day in the week, and often one day a month. 
The church should be the “meeting place”—for God is interested in everything that pertains 
to our well-being,—He brings joy into the midst of the world of toil and sorrow and keeps 
us in His loving care always. The rural church must unite and forget the old sectarianism, 
wrapping themselves up in denominational pride and the community about them drifting away 
from God and out into darkness. 

The rural church must get out of the narrow confines of self and realize it is here to 
minister and not to be ministered unto. 

Our rural life is awakening, for there are so many splendid messages of hope appearing 
on the horizon, proclaiming a new day, watching and encouraging along the way. Some of 
these messages are the Department of Agriculture at Washington, with its hundreds and 
thousands of workers, studying and sending to us the best; the experiment stations of our 
state agricultural colleges; the introduction of agriculture in our schools the farm bulletins 
and magazines that are being published; the agricultural experts and county advisers—both 
men and women—that are being employed; the farmer’s institutes, short courses, and the 
efforts on the part of the bankers, business men, manufacturers of agricultural implements, 
railroads, teachers and ministers, all ready and willing to assist in building up this great 
rural life of our country. 

Just how can we overcome this lack of co-operation, this common interest, and petty jeal¬ 
ousy and build up our rural communities? In Shelby County this end has been attained 
through the organization of co-operative clubs. These clubs at first had as members only 
women and girls, but in every club the men of the community have asked for membership, 
and they attend the meetings regularly. The clubs have no dues or membership fees and 


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only three officers—the president, vice-president and secretary. The three units the clubs 
stand for are the community, the home and the school. The fact of not having any dues 
makes it possible for every family in the community to join, realizing that they can give 
without cost two things—service and co-operation, which means so much to a community. 
Each member serves on one of the following committees: Education, sanitation, recrea¬ 
tion, civic beautification, membership, home economics and marketing. Each committee has 
meetings of its own and plans such work as can be done, calling on the other members to 
assist, reporting at the monthly meeting the work accomplished. Monthly club bulletins are 
published containing club news, programs, dates of meetings and demonstrations to be given. 

In Shelby County within six months we have twenty-nine co-operative clubs with a mem¬ 
bership of over 2,000 men and women, all co-operating and working for the upbuilding of 
their community, home and school. The work accomplished by these clubs has been wonder¬ 
ful. Sanitation was studied for two months and the result was more sanitary communities 
and homes. The committee on education has assisted in beautifying school grounds, intro¬ 
ducing domestic science in the rural schools and assisted in starting school gardens. The com¬ 
mittees on civic beautification have beautified rural churches, cemeteries and started rural 
recreation parks. The committees on recreation have accomplished a wonderful work. The 
subject of recreation is one of great importance in rural communities. Every one needs good, 
wholesome amusement. To this end community centers have been established and they have 
exceeded expectations in the good they have accomplishd. They have brought the commu¬ 
nity closer together and have given them a new lease on life. 

We have three types of these centers—a vacant room at the school, the women working 
on the house furnishing part and the men making the furniture. No money was given or 
raised in any way—it was all furnished by each member giving time, service and material. 
Another type is the abandoned school on account of consolidation. Communities will be 
more willing to consolidate schools, if in turn are given a social center. In this class of 
social centers two rooms are used—one a lecture and reading room and the other a home 
science room. The other type is a log cabin club house. 

These social centers are open every Friday night, some kind of simple, social gathering 
for all of the community. One rural club woman remarked: “Think of having some place to 
go every week.” A place where her husband and children can go with her, spend a pleas¬ 
ant evening with their neighbors, go home happy and with something new to think about. 
Farm bulletins and magazines, as well as magazines for women, are kept on fde at the club 
room. Lectures and cooking demonstrations are given each month — the Home Economics 
Committee having this in charge. 

The membership committee looks after new members, visits members who are ill and 
keeps in close touch with all club members. 

The marketing committee reports on good markets and market prices. 

I believe the future of rural development is in helping the rural community to help 
itself, giving them organization and co-operation and developing rural leadership, and giv¬ 
ing the farmer’s wife and family a comfortable home. The farmer and his family should 
appreciate the fact that they hold part of the destiny of our nation in their hand, and in pro¬ 
portion to the way they perform and discharge this obligation to that degree will civilization 
advance, and they must rise to this responsibility and have the idealism that goes with it. 


Cfje Roman’s Club 

“What is a woman’s club? A meeting ground 
For those of purpose great and broad and strong. 
Whose aim is in the stars; who ever long 
To make the patient, listening world resound 
With sweeter music, freer tones. 

A place where kindly, lifting words are said. 

And kindlier deeds are done; where hearts are fed. 
Where wealth of brain for poverty atones; 

Where hand grasps hand, and soul finds touch with soul; 
Where victors in the race for fame and power 
Look backward in their triumph hour 
Tc beckon others to the shining goal. 

This is a woman’s club—a haven fair. 

Where toilers drop—an hour—their load of care.” 


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1906 


1916 


Tennessee S>tate Jf air 

Woman’s Department—Home and Educational Section. 


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“ The most profitable , the most interesting study for woman 
is the home, for in it center all the issues of life.” 

BJECT—The Woman’s Department of the Tennessee State Fair has been the initial 
vital force in the development of an awakening interest and achievement in Woman’s 
work throughout the state. 

Its import is to open and broaden every avenue that leads to improved conditions; a wiser 
expenditure of income, and rest and beauty in general surroundings. 

The activities of the Home and Educational Department hope to put back into the home 
certain industries that have been taken out of it by factory production. Industries whose val¬ 
uable qualities will be forever lost, unless revived in the home by the women and children. 

Women must again “bake, brew and sew a fine seam.” 

She must look to the proper selection and preparation of food, that her family may be 
properly nourished. 

She must study civics, sanitation and architectural fitness, that shelter for her family 
may be safe and comfortable. 

Raiment for her family should be appropriate and of economic reserve. 

In fact, woman’s personal effort and consideration of the fundamental principles of 
home-making food, shelter and raiment, mean a healthier, happier people. 

The Home and Educational Department of the Tennessee State Fair is a great exposi¬ 
tion of the work of the women and children of the state, crystalized into a wonderful col¬ 
lection; and should be visited by every woman and child in the State Fair, if possible. A 
visit to this department gives an interchange of ideas and results that benefits not only the 
exhibitors of the year, but the future exhibitors, and this bond of union is co-operative and 
helpful, and results in the greatest good to the greatest number. The Tennessee State Fair 
invites exhibits from every county in the State, and this great institute or exhibition is for 
the women and children to study the results and utilize them in their own home. 

Opportunity for learning, suggests the opportunity for teaching; hence every woman of 
the State should be an integral part of the Tennessee State Fair. The present board of 1916 
are pleased to represent the women of the State, and pledge their services in the protection of 
all exhibits, their careful arrangement, and their ethical judgment. 


1916 BOARD. 


Member in Charge 


J. J. B. Johnsonius 
Assistant Director 


Director . . . . 

Miss Mary L. Lewis 


Mrs. Robert W. Nichol 


CHAIRMEN OF DEPARTMENTS—WOMAN’S SECTION. 


Art 


J Mrs. J. C. Bradford, Honorary 
‘ \ Miss Sarah Gaut, Active 
Domestic Art .... Mrs. Jno. S. Bransford 
Household Science . . Miss Mollie M. Claiborne 

Pure Food Demonstrations. 

.Professional Demonstrators 

Floriculture.Mrs. Alex Caldwell 

Parent Teachers’ Association. 

Mrs. Frederick Schoff, Philadelphia, 
National President, Honorary Chmn. 
Mrs. Eugene Crutcher, Active. 


Prof. J. J. Keyes, 

Supt. of City Schools 
Prof. A. C. Webb . . . 

Household Science 


Child Welfare Circle, Free Clinics, Story Hour, 
Play Grounds, Dietetic School Lunches, Better 
Babies. 

School Exhibits . . Miss Elizabeth Bloomstein, 

Peabody College for Teachers. 

National Bulletins. 

. Mrs. P. P. Claxton, Washington, D. C. 

Tennessee Press and Authors. 

Mrs. Jno. Epperson, Algood, Tenn. 
Mrs. Charles Watters Baker. 

Mrs. Leland Rankin, Editor South¬ 
ern Woman’s Magazine. 

CHILDREN’S SECTION. 

Household Art . . . Miss Elizabeth Randall 

Honorary Chairman School Art.Miss Will Petway 

. Active Chairman Industrial Art ... . Mr. Eugene Gilliland 

. Mrs. Haves Hall Sunday School Work . . . Mrs. Isaac Sewell 


TENNESSEE WOMEN WHO WERE PAST DIRECTORS. 

Mrs. K. P. Wright,. 1906 Mrs. Alex Caldwell.1910-11 

Mrs. Benton McMillin. 1907 Mrs. Taylor Stratton.1912 

Mrs. E. W. Foster. 1908 Mrs. T. G. Settle.1913 

Mrs. W. G. Ewing. 1909 Mrs. Charles Waters Baker.1914 

Mr. and Mrs. D. Moore Andrews .... 1915 


Mrs. Benton McMillin 
Mrs. E. W. Foster. 


DAVIDSON COUNTY CHAIRMEN. 
Mrs. J. H. Baird. 

Mrs. Jas. H. Palmer. 


Mrs. E. W. Lindsey. 
Mrs. J. H. Acklen. 


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Hast Bap of S>d)ool 

(The Teacherage.) 


Teacherage, as the teacher’s home is called, consists of an immense living-room, bed 
41 rooms, dining room and kitchen. The furniture is made by the mountaineers, and the 
dainty touches added by the teachers, usually two in number. The living-room is also 
used for a place of entertainment for the mountaineers. There they bring their little ones, have 
their simple little concerts, school closings, etc. In other words, it is a bond between teachers, 
pupils and mountain homes. The Teacherage means far more to the mountain folk than many 
personages realize. What they see there is all they know of the outside world. Mothers come 
when it is time to prepare a meal, not to get something to eat, but to watch the use of the 
“wonderful” utensils they use to cook the food in, and the stove, with its modern improve¬ 
ments, is a marvel. In mountain homes there is ofttimes just one “pan” in which to cook 
everything, and one immense tin bowl in which things are served; ofttimes only one 
spoon, and sometimes none. The teachers’ clothes are also a real treat to the women folk, 
who know naught of styles, and very little of anything else. Whenever possible those in 
charge of the teacherages try to render every assistance to the women, and teach them all 
they possibly can about housework and sewing. One and all who are working for and 
with the mountaineers, agree that it is impossible to do much with the older folk, but won¬ 
ders will be worked in the generation now growing up. Much has already been done, but 
that is a field where results, to be lasting, are obtained by constant and patient effort, and 
this the Federation is giving cheerfully and well. 


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THE HERMITAGE 

The home of General Andrew Jackson, near Nashville, Tenn., the preservation of which is the work of the 

Ladies’ Hermitage Association. 

)t Habtess’ hermitage &sisioctatum 

By Mrs. B. F. Wilson, Regent. 

UBLIC sentiment has linked together the names of George Washington, Andrew Jackson 
an( * Abraham Lincoln as a trio of the three greatest presidents of the United States. The 
Ladies’ Hermitage Association was organized in 1889 to honor Tennessee’s most 
illustrious citizen, Andrew Jackson, the hero of many battles and seventh president of the 
United States; by preserving intact the home which he in 1804 established in the wilderness, 
with all its accumulated belongings—old mahogany, oil portraits by distinguished artists, 
magnificent silver, rare vases, etc. The women of twenty-eight years since were very opti¬ 
mistic when they undertook the work prescribed by the State Legislature “to preserve, 
beautify and adorn the Hermitage in a manner most befitting the memory of Andrew Jack- 
son and commensurate with the gratitude of his countrymen.’’ Tennessee has, since 1856, 
owned the Hermitage farm as it now stands. 

The very small body of women early in 1889 began in all sorts of ways, by soliciting 
memberships or contributions, giving concerts, lectures and in various ways to accumulate a 
fund for fencing the twenty-five acres surrounding the Hermitage which was then a portion of 
the 500 acres owned by the State. 

The first regent, Mrs. Mary L. Baxter, served the Association from 1889 to 1897. During 
these eight years the following improvements were made: An enclosing fence was built at 
a cost of nearly $1,000.00; the old sheet copper roof, which, after fifty-five years of service 
was leaking badly, was replaced with a substantial tin one; much plastering, painting and 
carpenters’ work was done, until the whole house was in a good state of repair. Money 
came in slowly, there was no state aid, and no admittance fee was charged at the door; gifts 
were few and to accomplish the work undertaken seemed a slow if not a hard task. Con¬ 
certs by Blind Tom netted the Association $275.00; Mrs. John G. Carlisle sent from Washing¬ 
ton $600 as the net proceeds of a concert given in that city; Emma Abbott, the prima donna, 
presented the Association $100.00; Memphis gave a Jackson ball which netted $675.00 and a 
few other $100.00 contributions were received, but in some instances the fact that the prop¬ 
erty was owned by the State was somewhat of a hindrance. However, interest was growing 
and things looked more hopeful. 

In June, 1897, while Mrs. Albert S. Marks was acting regent, the first purchase of relics 
was made from Col. Jackson, who through his mother, Mrs. Sarah Yorke Jackson, had 


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inhei itecl all the belongings of the old home. This first purchase was the old coach at a price 
ot $100.00. 'This was followed by restoring to Gen. Jackson’s bed chamber everything just 
as it was when he died; all at a cost of $1,000.00. Thus began, without money—except as 
the Association could gather it in—but not without price, the restoration to the old home of 
the wonderful collection of antiques that is now found there. 

Mrs. J. Berren Lindsley was the next regent elected at the regular biennial meeting 
in May, 1899. During her administration the sale of flowers from the garden was begun; 
more additions in small but valuable articles were made to our household collection; insur¬ 
ance on the house and furniture was taken trees were planted and repairs to the amount 
of $1,000.00 were made. 

Mrs. A. M. Shook succeeded Mrs. Lindsley as regent in May, 1903, and during her 
regency the furnace tor the protection of the walls, paintings and furniture was installed; a 
marble bust of Jackson was presented to the Association by Hon. Lawrence Cooper; a 
privet hedge was planted and many relics were added to our already valuable collection. 

In May, 1905, Mrs. Mary C. Dorris was elected regent and during her four years admin¬ 
istration President Roosevelt visited the Hermitage with the result that through Senator 
James B. Frazier and Congressman John Wesley Gaines, congress made a gift to the Associa¬ 
tion of $5,000.00. With this gift a system of water works was installed, bringing water from 
the spring (which has a capacity of sixty thousand gallons daily) to the garden. The spring 
was greatly improved by the building of a substantial stone wall around the pool; a small 
cottage for the custodian was built, the interior of the house was painted with numerous coats 
ol paint, a new fence was built, a wide gravel walk to the spring was made. Prior to receiv¬ 
ing the $5,000.00 gift from Congress, a portrait of Jackson by the French artist Healy (sent 
over by Louis Phillippe, commissioned to paint several distinguished Americans, Henry 
Clay among the number) was purchased for $750.00. The companion to this picture is in 
the Louvre in Paris. There are many copies of this portrait but only two originals. Other 
relics were bought and trees and shrubbery were planted. 

Miss Louise G. Lindsley succeeded Mrs. Dorris as regent in 1909. Twenty-five hundred 
dollars of the Congressional appropriation was expended during her administration, $1,000 
of this was used in changing the custodians cottage from a two-room to a four-room build¬ 
ing with bath and porches; the exterior of the house was again painted; the two rooms in the 
main building formerly occupied by the care-takers were repaired and opened to the public; 
wire guards were placed at each door. The large silver lustre vases from Russia, table, 
chairs and other articles were added to our valuable collection. Barbecues, luncheons, etc., 
were the order of the day, all resulting in financial assistance. In August, 1912, the first 
payment of $500.00 was made upon the most valuable work of art which the Ladies’ Her¬ 
mitage Association possess, i. e., the Hiram Powers bust of President Jackson; the Associa¬ 
tion agreeing to pay $3,000.00 for it. 

The writer of this article was elected regent at the bi-ennial meeting in May, 1913. 
During the present administration a balance of $1,880.00 was paid on the Hiram Powers bust; 
$720.00 having been paid in the former administration, thus completing the payment of $3,- 
000.00 for this valuable piece of art. The chandelier in the back parlor and the beautiful 
candelabra in the dining-room were purchased. A copy of the military picture of Jackson by 
Earl, the distinguished American artist and personal friend of General Jackson, has been 
added to the belongings of the Hermitage Association, this copy to be used in the annual 
Jackson Ball decorations, instead of the original. The new automobile road projected by 
Miss Lindsley has been completed as has also the new stone posts and iron gate (this gate 
being as near a reproduction of the old original one as it was practical to make it). The 
automobile road has been lined with trees which came from the various battlefields of which 
General Jackson was the hero. It was the privilege as well as the pleasure of the writer 
to present this picture, gate and trees to the Association. 

The present board of directors consists of the following ladies who have served the 
Association both faithfully and well, some of them having served since the very inception of 
the Association: Mrs. B. F. Wilson, Miss Louise Lindsley, Mrs. A. M. Shook, Mrs. Mary C. 
Dorris, Mrs. P. H. Manlove, Miss Carrie Sims, Mrs. R. A. Henry, Mrs. Bettie M. Donelson, 
Mrs. Maggie L. Hicks. 

There has been no retrograde in the work of the Ladies’ Hermitage Association. Each 
administration has scored its own success. All have done well. About 6,000 persons visit 
the Hermitage annually to honor a man who died more than three-score and ten years since. 
Where is the man who said “Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings and 
the only earthly certainty is oblivion”? 


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Jflrsi. iB. Jf. Wil&on 

Nashville, Tenn. 


Mrs. B. F. Wilson, sixth Regent of the Ladies’ Hermitage Association, is one of the South’s many leaders 
in social and club circles. Gracious in manner, cordial in greeting, she is eminently fitted for the various posi¬ 
tions she has been called upon to fill. She was Chairman of the Nashville Auxiliary to the Appalachian Expo¬ 
sition at Knoxville, Tenn., and represented it on Nashville Day. She also represented the Ladies’ Hermitage 
Association in Alabama at the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of the Horse Shoe Bend. She for a 
time served as President of the Vanderbilt Aid Society, and is now ably finishing her fourth year as Regent 
of the Ladies’ Hermitage Association. 


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Jltr£. 3fa(m IP. QTfjomasion 


Lillian May, daughter of the late N. O. and Katherine Rhodes, was born in Memphis, but her presence was 
only loaned for a short time to her native city, for when but a little girl, she went to make her home in Paris, 
Tenn. She finished school in Nashville and later became the wife of John B. Thomason, in 1902, and con¬ 
tinued to reside in Paris until when, with her husband, Mrs. Thomason moved to Memphis and made a new 
home in the city of her nativity. Later, in 1915, Judge Thomason was elected to the office of State Comp¬ 
troller, since which time she has had a residence in the Capitol City. Mrs. Thomason is a descendant of the 
pioneer families, Butler and Robertson, famed in the early History of Tennessee. Her grandfather. Dr. J. C. 
Rogers, was one of the leading physicians of Memphis. Mrs. Thomason retains the feminine ideas of the 
old regime before woman aspired to enter the political arena and she frankly declares “I am not a suffra¬ 
gist.” Nor is she much concerned in club affairs. However, club women love her for her uniform courtesy 
and charm of manner, and suffragists admire her total freedom from affectation. In this day of veneer it is 
refreshing to meet Mrs. Thomason, who impresses one as being the genuine woman of culture. After exten- 
size travel, Mrs. Thomason selected Memphis, Tennessee, as her permanent home. 


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tn ^Tennessee tbe daughters; of tfje American Hetoolutton 

By Miss Ella Hunt. 

Registrar Bonny Kate Chapter. 


authority for the existence as an organization of the Daughters of the American 
/I Revolution, comes to it in the form of a charter from the United States government. 
The national society, which is made up of individual chapters, was created for histori¬ 
cal, patriotic and educational purposes. It is formed of lineal descendants of the men and 
women who achieved American Independence in the War of the Revolution, and was founded 
in the city of Washington, October 11, 1890, This date is commemorated as Founders’ day. 
Mrs. Renjamin Harrison was the first president-general of the national society. 

The organization in Tennessee had its beginning in Memphis, December 18, 1892, when 
as organizing regent, Mrs. J. Harvey Mathes formed the Hermitage chapter, which has always 
done splendid work along patriotic and educational lines; contributing large sums to Con¬ 
tinental hall and to the mountain school. The society today has a roster of twenty-eight chap¬ 
ters and a membership of 1,432, a gain of 115 members during the past year, according to 
official figures furnished by the present state regent, Mrs. George W. Baxter. 

Its work is along definite lines; it has greatly stimulated the study of American his¬ 
tory; it has taught reverence for the flag; it has preserved records and marked historic 
spots. 


Miss Mary Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock) in her report as state regent to the Con¬ 
gress of 1913, says: “A feature of patriotic work, that is taking strong hold in Tennessee is 
the marking of historic trails and byways, and it is well, indeed, that this should he ener¬ 
getically pursued before all records as well as ancient vestages vanish. One of the most import¬ 
ant of these is the old Natchez Trace, long famous in Tennessee annals, as the blazed bridle 
path from Nashville to Natchez, and once the highway of all the travel and traffic through the 
primeval wilderness from the north to the south in this section.” 

During the term of Miss Murfree’s state regency, the three Nashville chapters, Cumber¬ 
land, Campbell and Colonel Thomas McCrory, completed the erection of a massive granite 
marker with a handsome bronze tablet, costing something like two hundred dollars, in Cen¬ 
tennial Park, upon the spot where, more than an hundred years before, the mail rider was 
wont to set forth on his route. Old Glory chapter of Franklin placed a boulder with a 
bronze tablet, reciting its significance, upon the spot, six miles from Franklin, where the 
mail rider made his first halt. Miss Murfree appointed a committee, with Miss Mary B. Tem¬ 
ple as chairman for the state, for the purpose of marking the Old Wilderness trail, the road 
cut by Daniel Boone from the Yadkin in North Carolina, to Boonesborough in Kentucky, the 
Daughters of the American Revolution in the four states, North Carolina, Tennessee, Vir¬ 
ginia and Kentucky each marking the way on her own soil. Work along the line of the 
promotion of the welfare of women and children, and of giving hospital treatment to char¬ 
ity patients was accomplished during this administration. An effort to make state-wide a 
movement for the establishment and maintenance of Daughter of American Revolution hos¬ 
pital rooms in the infirmaries of villages and small towns for the care and cure of charity 
patients, who otherwise could not get hospital treatment. 

Mrs. Charles B. Bryan, ex-state regent and vice-president general, a pioneer and leader 
not only in her own state, but in the national society, considers that the best work of her 
administration was to start the movement to preserve our state archives, and to petition the 
legislature to have a place provided for them. For years they had been in the basement of 
the capitol. This was accomplished. Mrs. Bryan organized Commodore Perry Chapter of 
Memphis, one of the largest chapters in the state and noted for zealous work. Aided by 
other chapters, it erected a handsome monument over the grave of Dorothy Winston (a 
daughter of Patrick Henry) who sleeps in Elmwood cemetery at Memphis. 

Much work for the soldiers of the Spanish-American war and large contributions to 
Continental Hall distinguished the administration of Mrs. H. S. Chamberlain, organizer and 
for many years regent of Chickamauga Chapter, Chattanooga, state regent during the years 
1901-2-3, ex-vice-president and prominent in the national society. 

Chickamauga Chapter placed one of the markers on the Boone Trail, entertained the 
state conference in 1902, and again in 1915, with Mrs. Chamberlain as chapter regent. 

Mrs. James S. Pilcher, state regent, in the early years of the society, organized Campbell 
Chapter, December 1894, named in honor of her ancestor, Gen. David Campbell, one of the 
heroes of King’s Mountain. Mrs. Pilcher collected and arranged a fine exhibit of colonial 


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and Revolutionary war relics in History Hall at the Tennessee Centennial. Campbell Chap¬ 
ter contributed largely to the state monument, and to the Daughters of American Revolution 
mountain school, also to the furnishing of the Tennessee room in Continental Hall. This 
chapter organized the John Marshall Club of the Children of the Republic. 

1Qn 1 1SS Y ai T Temple, organizer and regent of Bonny Kate Chapter, was state regent 
. i- , state vice-regent 1908-9, and is an ex-vice-president general of the national society, 
e repiesented the 1 ennessee Daughters at the Daughters of American Revolution Congress 
he'd at San hrancisco during the Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915. Her administration was 
a busy one although she was handicapped by both illness and accident. Two informal 
state conferences were held, one at Monteagle and one at Nashville. Two Daughters oi 
American Revolution pages in the News-Scimitar of Memphis, were edited by Miss Temple. 
During Miss Temple’s administration the John Sevier Chapter at Johnson City, and the Com- 
modoie Lawrence chapter at Memphis were organized. Miss Temple urged that greater effort 
be made to laise funds lor Continental Hall. This appeal resulted in a wonderful increase 
in conti ibutions. She also emphasized educational work. Miss Temple was instrumental in 
securing loi the Jamestown Exposition, an exhibit of historical relics, documents, etc., per¬ 
taining to the early history of Tennessee. Miss Temple presented a handsome silk banner, 
gnen by the Daughters of the state to the cruiser Tennessee; also a handsome silver lov- 
mg cup, an individual gift from Bonny Kate chapter, while the ship was at Hampton Roads 
during the Jamestown Exposition. Miss Temple was present at the placing of every one of 
the nine markers along the Boone Trail in Tennessee (covering a distance of eighty-six 
miles) and also took part in the unveiling exercises. This work was accomplished in the 
incredibly short space ot one week’s time during the summer of 1914. 

The five East Tennessee Chapters, John Carter at Elizabethton; John Sevier, at Johnson 
City; Samuel Doak, at Morristown; Bonny Kate, at Knoxville; and Chickamauga, at Chatta¬ 
nooga, made this their special work. A culmination of the marking of the Boone Trail was 
the unveiling of the base for a monument to Daniel Boone, at Cumberland Gap, June 30, 
1915. This event was participated in by the Daughters of the American Revolution of four 
states. North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky. In this joint marker one face 
of the monument will be given each state for its own inscription. 

Bonny Kate chapter is named in honor of Katherine Sherrill, the second wife of Ten¬ 
nessee’s first governor, John Sevier. In 1900, Bonny Kate Chapter placed a boulder at Lowe’s 
herry below Knoxville, commemorating the birthplace of Admiral Farragut. Addresses 
were made at this unveiling by Admiral George Dewey, who was on Farragut’s flagship 
during the civil war. 

The birthplace of General James White, founder of Knoxville, was also marked by this 
chapter, Capt. Richard P. Hobson made the unveiling address. 

A stone was placed on the site of the first blockhouse in Tennessee, Admiral Schley 
participating in the unveiling exercises. 

Bonny Kate Chapter erected a monument at Campbell’s station, fifteen miles from Knox¬ 
ville, in memory of Capt. David Campbell, who, in 1787, built a station at that point, as a 
stronghold against the hostile Indians. 

Bonny Kate has taken the initiative in marking the site of the capitol and city of refuge 
of the Cherokee Indians at Chota, about five miles from the ruins of old Fort Loudon. This 
chapter will join the Samuel Doak Chapter in placing a monument at Greeneville commem¬ 
orative of the permanent capitol of the state of Franklin. In 1910 Bonny Kate, in conjunc¬ 
tion with the Sycamore Shoals Chapter, Bristol, and the John Sevier Chapter, Johnson City, 
erected a monument on the site of old Fort Watauga, near Sycamore Shoals, the rendez¬ 
vous of the over-mountain men, who won the battle of King’s Mountain. Hon. Robert Love 
Taylor, ex-governor and United States senator, was the speaker on the occasion of the unveil¬ 
ing. This chapter has also made large contributions to Continental Hall, and to settlement 
and philanthropic work. 

Mrs. W. G. Spencer, state regent, 1908-9, is a member of Cumberland chapter, Nashville, 
organized February 1, 1893, as the second chapter in the state. This chapter was instrumen¬ 
tal in getting the General Assembly of Tennessee to appropriate five thousand dollars annu¬ 
ally to support a chair of history in Peabody Normal College. The chapter presented 
Gen. Joe Wheeler a handsome sword after his notable part in the Spanish-American war, 
and also placed a bronze tablet upon the site of the historic old Nashville Inn. During Mrs. 
Spencer’s regime this chapter made large contributions to Continental Hall and to the moun¬ 
tain school. Mrs. Spencer’s administration saw the state monument at Nashville completed 
and a school started at Devil’s Fork, Sweetwater Valley, Unicoi county, for the education of 
children in the mountain districts of upper East Tennessee. This school is known as a state 
Daughter of American Revolution school, is supported entirely by the Daughters of Ameri- 


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can Revolution, and is under their direct control. Every daughter in the state pays a 15- 
cent school tax. Mrs. Spencer is still the slate chairman and the work is growing all the 
time. Four new chapters were organized during Mrs. Spencer’s administration. 

Mrs. Thomas Day, member for many years and also regent of Watauga chapter, Mem¬ 
phis, served as state regent, 1910-11, and as vice-president general 1912-13. In addition she 
served on five national committees. During Mrs. Day’s administration as regent she secured 
the permanent continuance of the patriotic industrial school in the Tennessee mountains. 
She saw the work about completed for a memorial to DeSoto, on the spot upon which, in 
1541, he discovered the Mississippi river. During her administration new emphasis was given 
the movement to secure for our state archives the Draper manuscript. Six chapters were 
also organized, the largest of which was the Samuel Doak chapter of Morristown with six¬ 
ty-two charter members. The Watauga Chapter, of which Mrs. Day is a member, was organ¬ 
ized in 1894, the fourth chapter in the state. In 1897 this chapter brought a tree from the 
Watauga Settlement planting it on Capitol Hill, Nashville, with a stone marker in honor of 
the Watauga Association of 1772, and the pioneer builders of Tennessee. Mrs. Day took 
the initiative in the effort toward getting Andrew Jackson honored in Statuary Hall, Wash¬ 
ington. 

Mrs. George White Baxter, state regent, 1914-15, is a member of Bonny Kate Chapter. 
Mrs. Baxter is also president of the woman’s board of the Lincoln Memorial University, 
created for the purpose of interesting the women of the south in the education of the moun¬ 
tain boys and girls at this institution. Mrs. Baxter presided at the state conference held in 
Knoxville, 1914, also at the conference which was held in Chattanooga, 1915. She presented 
a volume of the Draper manuscript to a library at Nashville, also sent a volume to the library 
in Memphis, and presented one to the Lawson-McGhee library at Knoxville. Mrs. Baxter pre¬ 
sented a Tennessee state flag to the postoffice department at Washington, D. C., to be used 
on Flag Day. During her administration the Nancy Ward and Judge David Campbell chap¬ 
ters at Chattanooga, and the Capt. William Edmiston Chapter at Clarksville, were organized 
and the Barrett White Chapter at Memphis was re-organized. Mrs. Baxter presided and 
took part in the exercises at the unveiling of the monument at Campbell’s Station. Dean 
James D. Hoskins, of the University of Tennessee, delivered the address of the occasion, 
and the children of Farragut school sang patriotic songs. 

A scholarship was given at the state conference in Chattanooga, November, 1915, to 
Lincoln Memorial University in honor of Margaret White Baxter, state regent. It was voted 
unanimously at the state meeting, held in Washington, April 17, 1916, during the sessions 
of the national endowment to make this a permanent endowment. 

To this administration is due the credit of inaugurating the movement of placing the 
monument at Greenville as the permanent capitol of the lost state of Franklin and at Chota, 
the site of the Cherokee City of Refuge. 

It is gratifying to note that Tennessee has two national chairmen, Mrs. Margaret Hicks 
of Nashville, and Mrs. Charles Slack of Bristol. 

All of the state regents have been made honorary state regents. Mrs. Harvey Mathes of 
Memphis has been made, in addition to this, honorary vice-president general. These honor¬ 
ary positions were bestowed for valuable service rendered the society. 

Memorial Continental Hall is the achievement of the Daughters of the American Revo¬ 
lution. In the original manuscript minutes of the society is found the first recorded men¬ 
tion of consideration of this subject in a motion made at the second meeting of the national 
society, October 18, 1890, by Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, who urged the importance of a fire-proof 
building for the preservation of the society’s relics and possessions. Year by year the prop¬ 
osition took material form, and at the first Continental Congress, February, 1892, the building 
fund was $650, growing with each succeeding congress until, in 1901, the fund had reached 
the amount of $82,190.57. 

The ground cost $50,266.17 and Memorial Continental Hall cost $350,000. The corner¬ 
stone was laid on April 19, 1904, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington. The cere¬ 
monies attending the laying of the corner stone were in charge of the Masons and were cele¬ 
brated with Masonic rites. The trowel was the one used by George Washington in laying 
the corner stone of the National Capitol, September 18, 1793, which was afterward presented 
to Potomac lodge. Fifty articles were placed in the large copper box enclosed in the corner 
stone, which will lie as long as Memorial Hall shall stand. Following the placing of the 
articles in the box Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, then president general; Miss Desha, Mis. Mary 
S. Lockwood, Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth and Miss Eugenia Washington, the founders of 
the order, descended to the corner stone, and with trowel spread mortar upon it. 

From the beginning of the society up to September 30, 1915, Tennessee contributed $5,- 
407.21 to the Continental Hall fund. 


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i$lr£. (George Wtyitt Baxter 

Margaret White Baxter, the eldest child of the late Col. Charles M. McGhee and his wife Cornelia Huines 
White McGhee, was born on her father’s plantation in Monroe county, Tennessee; but as a baby removed with 
her parents to Knoxville, Tenn., which continued to be her home until her marriage. She was educated under 
private tutors; at the Convent of the Visitation, Georgetown, D. C.; Ward’s Seminary, Nashville, Tenn., and 
subsequently in Paris, France. 

Upon her marriage to George White Baxter (a lieutenant in the cavalry service of the United States 
Army) she accompanied her husband to Wyoming, where he was then stationed and for four years shared 
with him the vicissitudes of an army officer’s wife in numerous frontier military posts. After her husband 
resigned from the military service, she remained with him in Wyoming, where he engaged in cattle ranching, 
and soon took an active part in organizing the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and 
became the first State Regent in Wyoming. 

Subsequently her husband removed to Denver, Colorado, where he made his home, and where she con¬ 
tinued her activities as a Daughter of the American Revolution and founded the Denver Chapter of the 
societ 3 % the first chapter established in that city. Mrs. Baxter qualified as a member of the National Society 
of the Daughters of the American Revolution through her descent from Gen. James White, a Revolutionary 
officer of distinction and who founded the city of Knoxville. 

In 1903, Mr. and Mrs. Baxter returned to their old home in Knoxville, where they have since continued 
to reside. During the past two years she has been the state regent of the Tennessee Society of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution. 

Mrs. Baxter has for many years been an active member of the Tennessee Society of Colonial Dames. She 
has at all times evinced an active interest in educational and charitable institutions. At the present time she 
is chairman of the women’s board of trustees of the Lincoln Memorial University at Cumberland Gap, Tenn. 

Added to her strong common sense and strength of character she combines a distinctive personal charm 
which is recognized by all who know her. Cultivated, widely traveled, and prepossessing, she is an admirable 
type of the earnest, patriotic American woman. 


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®l)t ®niteb States SJaugijterg of 1812 

By Mrs. Mary C. Dorris, State President. 



HE United States Daughters ot 1812 is a national organization formed of the lineal 
descendants ot those persons who rendered service to their country from the close of 
the War of the American Revolution to the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1815, a 
period of thirty-one years. It was incorporated by the congress of the United States 


in 1901, and is rapidly coming to the front in these latter days. 


Less is known and told of this primitive period of our country’s history, than, perhaps, 
any other ot the more than one hundred years of our nationality, but it is a period full of 
interest and well calculated to repay one for the study. 

The national society is a democratic one, and each state has full control of its own state 
organization and the national society is but the union of state societies. The national pres¬ 
ident appoints the first state president, and after that the state conducts its own affairs. 


In 1906, Mrs. William Gerry Slade, of New York, who was then the national president, 
appointed Mrs. Thomas Buford to organize a society in this state. Mrs. Buford called the 
eligibles together and formed the first state society with the following charter members: Mrs. 
Thomas Buford, Mrs. Hallam Goodloe, Mrs. Mary C. Dorris, Mrs. Rachel Jackson Laurence, 
Mrs. Wm. G. Spencer, Mrs. Susie Gentry, Mrs. W. R. Dickerson, Miss Rosabel Dickerson, Mrs. 
John I. Cox, Mrs. E. W. Foster, Mrs. W. S. Ashworth, as charter members. 

A great deal ot interest was manifested. Mrs. Wm. G. Spencer was elected vice-president. 
Miss Susie Gentry, recording secretary, and Mrs. John I. Cox, treasurer. For a time the 
society flourished, then illness in her family and an enforced absence from the city prevented 
Mrs. Buford from stimulating the work she had begun with so much enthusiasm, and fostered 
with so much interest. Having changed her residence from the city in 1909, Mrs. Buford 
resigned, and Mrs. Wm. G. Spencer, vice-president, succeeded to the office, and conducted 
its affairs successfully, representing the society at its annual meeting in 1915. 

Miss Susie Gentry organized the first chapter in the state, calling it the Col. Thomas Hart 
Benton Chapter. Many new members had been added. 

Mrs. Spencer resigned the office in 1915, and on the 19th of August of the same year, Mrs. 
Mary C. Dorris was elected state president, with Mrs. E. W. Foster, vice-president; Miss 
Susie Gentry, recording secretary; Mrs. Margaret Wyatt, corresponding secretary; Mrs. 
Janies O. Shannon of Franklin, treasurer; Mrs. Hallum Goodloe, registrar; Mrs. Lucy H. Hor¬ 
ton, historian; Mrs. W. S. Ashworth, chairman membership committee. Since that time the 
following new officers have been elected: Miss Louise G. Lindsley, second vice-president; 
Mrs. Thomas Day of Memphis, third vice-president; Mrs. Wm. G. Spencer, fourth vice-presi¬ 
dent; Mrs. L. E. Goldwire of Memphis, councilor. Mrs. Hallum Goodloe resigning the office 
of registrar, Mrs. Willis Hitying was elected to the position. 

Since the incumbency of Mrs. Mary G. Dorris the membership has more than doubled, 
and two chapters have been added. On October 19, 1915, the “Hero of New Orleans” chapter 
was organized in Nashville with twelve charter members and Mrs. Dorris as regent. On 
March 17, 1916, the “Old Hickory” Chapter was organized in Memphis, with sixteen charter 
members and Mrs. L. E. Goldwire as regent. 

The state president has appointed Mrs. Goldwire organizing regent for the city of Memphis 
and she immediately began work of organizing a chapter with the result that there now is a fine 
chapter in Memphis, making three in the state. Mrs. Jno. I. Cox was appointed organizing regent 
by the state president, for Bristol, Tenn. There is fine material in Bristol and the Virginia 
side of that city is anxious to corral the Tennessee eligibles into a Virginia chapter, but the 
Tennessee society will try to hold its own. Mrs. Hugh H. Embrey of Chattanooga has also 
been appointed organizing regent for that section and will soon begin active work for another 
chapter in the state at Chattanooga. 


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On January 1st, 1916, the national president, Mrs. Robert Hall Wiles, and the national 
registrar, Mrs. James H. Stansfield, both of Chicago, visited Nashville, and were entertained by 
the state society at the historic Hermitage and assisted in placing a bronze marker at the tomb 
of General Andrew Jackson, the hero of 1812. Beautiful ceremonies were conducted at the 
tomb with speeches by the visiting ladies and the state members and officers. Mrs. B. F. Wil¬ 
son, regent of the Ladies’ Hermitage Association, welcomed the United States Daughters of 
1812, with an appropriate address. A sumptuous lunch was served in the old historic kitchen 
with its quaint and old-fashioned interior, and a “patriotic camp-fire” was one of the fea¬ 
tures of interest. Each member present cast a branch of evergreen into the roaring fire in the 
yawning fire place uttering some appropriate sentiment. The visitors were entertained at 
dinner by Mrs. Win. G. Spencer and at breakfast, January 2nd, by Mrs. Margaret L. H. 
Hicks. Later they resumed their journey to New Orleans, where they were to participate in 
the very impressive ceremonies incident to the return of the Andrew Jackson flag, by the 
state of Illinois to the state of Louisiana. The flag was presented to General Jackson Decem¬ 
ber 31, 1814, by the ladies of New Orleans, captured during the war of the states by an Illi¬ 
nois regiment and now returned to its place in the historical collection at New Orleans. 
This pretty incident was brought about by the influence of Mrs. Robert Hall Wiles, national 
president United States Daughters of 1812. 

A fine delegation represented Tennessee at the annual meeting in Washington, April 
25th, headed by the state president. The annual meeting is always held on the week in which 
the 26th of April falls. 

Tennessee being the “Volunteer State” and having engaged largely in the Creek and 
Indian wars, which give eligibility, and also the Battle of New Orleans, where the “Hero of 
1812” put the capstone upon the war, there are many eligibles in Tennessee who will no 
doubt join the society when its interest and good work are shown. 



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Jlisisi Jlarp popee temple 

One of the most useful, as well as one of the most brilliant women of Tennessee is Mary Boyce Temple 
of Knoxville. A graduate of Vassar College, she reaches out for the highest ideals of that wonderful insti¬ 
tution. Miss Temple has attained prominence as a writer, as a club woman, as a social leader; in a word, 
along all lines of public leadership. 

A pioneer Southern club woman. Miss Temple was the first and for five years the president of Ossoli Circle, 
the earliest Woman’s Literary club in the South. She helped to organize the General Federation of Women’s 
Clubs, and became its first corresponding secretary, being one of only two Southern delegates present at the 
formation in 1890, of the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs. In patriotic work. Miss Temple has been 
founding regent of Bonny Kate Chapter, of which she is still regent, vice-state regent, state regent, vice-presi¬ 
dent general National and State Daughters of American Revolution. She w r as vice-president of the Woman’s 
Board of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in 1896, and was appointed, 1900, by Gov. McMillin, commis¬ 
sioner to the Paris Exposition. She was the only woman on the jury of Higher Education at the St. Louis 
Exposition, serving with ten notable men. In 1913, Miss Temple went officially to Europe with the Rural 
Credit Commission to study agricultural conditions. She established at the State University a short course in 
agriculture, in memory of her father. Judge O. P. Temple, and helps to sustain the professorship of agricul¬ 
ture at Washington College. 

She served as vice-president of the National Household Economics Association, and is at present vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Woman’s Board Lincoln Memorial University, and an active member of the Tennessee Press and 
Authors’ Club, as well as of the local Writers’ Club; is a member of the Tennessee Historical Association and 
of the Archaeological Institute of America. 

Miss Temple spends the winters in Washington, where she is popular in the exclusive set. 


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iflrs. GTIjomass Bap 

Vice-President General, N. S. D. A. R., and Honorary 
State Regent of Tennessee. 

Mrs. Day has been member of the organization Daughters 
American Revolution since 1893. Has held official position 
for over twenty-one years, as Registrar, Regent, State Regent 
(two terms), and Vice-President General of the National 
Society. Has served on many national and state committees. 
Her administration secured for Tennessee its first markers for 
the Natchez Trace, and inaugurated the movement for DeSoto 
Park; the Maury Memorial; Watauga Oldfield’s monument, 
and to secure for Tennessee the Draper manuscripts. Made 
the first contribution toward founding a D. A. R. school for 
white children in the Mountains of Tennessee. Held the first 
public celebration of Flag Day in the South. Aided for years 
by Company A, Confederate Veterans, Forrest Rifles and a 
battalion of the National State Guard and notable speakers. 
Is Honorary State Regent of Tennessee. Honorary Regent 
(for life) of Watauga Chapter. Organized and was president 
of the first Chapter of Children American Revolution in the 
South—Adam Dale (later, five of its members enlisted in the 
Spanish-American War). Is member of the Virginia Society 
Colonial Dames; of the National Society United States Daught¬ 
ers of 1812; of the society, order of the Crown (by descent 
from Edward III). Is State Regent of the John Paul Jones 
Association. Is member of the Nineteenth Century Club; 
member of Ladies’ Confederate Memorial Association—has 
held several official positions, and is responsible for the cus¬ 
tom of children and grand-children of Veterans participating 
by placing wreaths Memorial Day. 


Jttrs. Jfranfe Hang 

Memphis is greatly indebted to Atlanta, Ga., for a woman of 
charming appearance and great ability. Mrs. Frank (Laura 
Rose) Lang, who comes of a patriotic ancestry from whom 
she inherits a devotion to the Flag, and serves on the D. A. R. 
State Committee on “Prevention of the desecration of the 
Flag.” She is one of the brilliant club women of Memphis, 
the efficient Corresponding Secretary of the D. A. R. Chap¬ 
ter House Association, a member of the Nineteenth Century 
Club, Visiting Nurse Association, and other organizations, 
besides being an active member of Calvary Episcopal Church. 
Watauga Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 
recognized in Mrs. Lang the necessary attributes for a 
successful leader, and unanimously elected her as their 
Regent, during her absence from the city. For the 
past two years she has represented her Chapter most credit¬ 
ably in State Conferences and National Congresses, and by 
her graciousness of manner, distinctive personality and, to 
quote from the Washington Post regarding her, “A graceful 
Southern woman, who reminds one of sweet Southern flowers 
and sunshine,” she has made many friends at home and 
abroad. Watauga was organized in 1894, and has accom¬ 
plished some wonderful work for the organization. It is due 
to Mrs. Lang’s untiring efforts—a “justness” and “honorable¬ 
ness,” an ability for “doing things” to the most minute detail, 
that has given Watauga the largest membership of any Chap¬ 
ter in the city, with renewed interest and good fellowship 
prevailing. 



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JUrS. William peberlp <§ates 

(Memphis, Term.) 

Mrs. William Beverly Gates, nee Mamie Long Williams, is the daughter of the late Dr. John Joseph Wil¬ 
liams and Anna Martin Sneed, both families of Revolutionary stock. 

Her father was one of the distinguished physicians of the state, her maternal uncle. Judge John L. T. Sneed, 
of the Supreme Court bench, was one of the best known men of the South; and her brother, J. J. Williams, 
was the Mayor of Memphis, who inaugurated the city’s splendid park system, and also the “Greater Memphis” 
policy that has resulted in so much civic improvement. One of her sons following in his grandfather’s steps, is 
a physician in the famous sanitarium of the Mayo Brothers, at Rochester, Minnesota. 

Mrs. Gates was born in Memphis and received her education in that city. From early girlhood she has 
been counted among the beautiful women of the State. 

She is the wife of William Beverly Gates, now retired from business. 

She has done much valuable organization work, being a member of the D. A. R., the National Peace Soci¬ 
ety, National Red Cross, National Suffrage League and the U. D. C. The local club with which she is indenti- 
fied is the Nineteenth Century Club. She is a charter member of the Memphis D. A. R. Chapter House; and 
Watauga Chapter made her an honorary life member when, after four years’ service as vice-regent, she left 
it to become regent of the new' Adam Dale Chapter. 

She is a Presbyterian, trained thus by her “blue stocking” parents. 

It is in humanitarian fields that she has most enjoyed her work, inheriting from her father a strain of 
philanthropy w'hich has been a strong influence in her life. Before her marriage to Mr. Gates she took up 
the study of kindergarten, and was most successful in the field. She later became a member of the local Day 
Nursery, and through her work in the Sunshine Society the newsboys of the city counted her their friend. The 
w'ork to which she is now giving her heart and time is that for the mountain children. Under her leadership 
Adam Dale Chapter has given four scholarships to mountain boys, one of them being the “Roy Looney Schol¬ 
arship,” named by the chapter in memory of her son w r ho passed over the river in early manhood. It is need¬ 
less to say that the mother-heart holds this among her most precious honors. 

Mrs. Gates has traveled extensively, first in her own country, in Canada southward through Mexico and 
Cuba. Several times she has been abroad, and knows Europe from the “land of the midnight sun” to the 
blue w'aters of the Mediterranean. She w 7 as in Russia when the Czarowitz was born and, while in Moscow', 
witnessed the splendid celebration of his baptism in the Kremlin, which is the heart of old Russia, and heard 
also the ringing of its world-famous bells which are rung only in celebration of great national occasions. 

She has two sons. No daughters blessed her heart, but fifty young Daughters of the American Revolu¬ 
tion call her “Mother.” 


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Jflrg. Charles! <§. Carotfjers 

Mary Means Blewett was born in Louisiana and came of the 
two well knowm families of South Carolina, the Means and 
the Blewett families. She married Charles G. Carothers, and 
about thirteen years ago they moved to Memphis. She is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church and has been especially 
active in religious and patriotic circles. Soon after taking up 
her residence in Memphis she was elected to office in the 
Commodore Perry Chapter D. A. R., and has held different 
offices in that Chapter until she w'as appointed by the Regent, 
Mrs. Mary Miller, to organize a new D. A. R. Chapter, which 
is called Admiral d’Estaing. She was chosen about two years 
ago to organize a new Children of American Revolution Chap¬ 
ter, which she did successfully. The Chapter was named 
in honor of two of Mrs. Carothers’ ancestors, and called 
Milling-Means. The descendants of John Means in South 
Carolina presented the new organization with a handsome 
gavel made of wood taken from the homes of these two Revo¬ 
lutionary soldiers. Mrs. Allen Blewett, another descendant, 
presented the charter. Mrs. Carothers has represented Com¬ 
modore Perry Chapter several times at National and State 
conventions, and served two years as State Historian of Ten¬ 
nessee D. A. R. She is an active member of the Colonial 
Dames, and is Princess of the Pocahontas Circle. She is also 
a member of the Francis Scott Key Association. She has for 
a number of years been president of the J. Harvey Mathes 
Chapter U. D. C. She is a woman of beautiful character and 
charming personality and possessed of fine intellectual and 
social qualifications. 


JilrfiL 3. ffielloacf) 

Tennessee is indebted to Vicksburg, Mississippi, for Mrs. A. 
B. DeLoach, nee Miss Laura B. Collier, whose charming per¬ 
sonality and beautiful character have won for her so many 
friends. She is the daughter of John Marshall Collier and 
Sallie Newman Collier, and granddaughter of Dr. J. C. New¬ 
man, of Warren County, Mississippi. She was graduated from 
the Alabama Normal College, at Livingston, Alabama, and 
taught two years in the Public Schools of Mississippi, pre¬ 
vious to her marriage in 1891 to Dr. A. B. DeLoach, of Livings¬ 
ton, Alabama. Intensely interested in club life, Mrs. DeLoach 
is a member of the I). A. R., the U. D. C., the Tennessee Fed¬ 
eration of Women’s Clubs, chairman of Civics and Child Wel¬ 
fare of the Nineteenth Century Club, formerly Regent of 
Hermitage Chapter D. A. R., and at present is president of 
the Memphis D. A. R. Chapter House Association. She is 
nestor for the first flower market ever held in Memphis. This 
w r as given under the auspices of the Nineteenth Century Club 
for the purpose of promoting an interest in the City Beauti¬ 
ful. In the w'ork of Civic Improvement, Mrs. DeLoach has 
inaugurated the Neighborhood Improvement Club, ten clubs 
having been formed. Mrs. DeLoach has been a member of St. 
Luke’s Episcopal Church for the past twenty years, and is at 
present the directress of the Young Ladies’ Bible Class. She 
is the mother of three daughters—Eleanor Churchill, now 
Mrs. W. P. Phillips, Jr.; Maidee Collier and Mildred Thornton 
DeLoach. 



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Jlr£. Jf. 3L. ^atesi 

Memphis, Term. 


In this age it is the woman who not only is the ideal wife and mother, but also the practical club woman, 
who comes to the front as the Salvator of her sex, and in this role we have a splendid example in Mrs. F. L. 
Bates. Surrounded with all that loving care can give her, she is ever mindful of those less fortunate than 
herself—especially the ones doomed to sit in darkness. To them her heart has gone out and for them she 
labors. Each year at the Tri-State Fair she, as chairman, conducts a department for the blind, making it suc¬ 
cessful, from every standpoint, and very pleasant to the patient blind guests who oft times are there. In her 
D. A. R. work Mrs. Bates is just as energetic, just as faithful, and equally as successful. Having been Regent 
of Martha Bratton Chapter two years, ending April, 1915, and Vice-President of Chapter House Association. 
She is also a member Equal Suffrage Club, and in her social world she is wonderfully popular, but her home 
is her haven, and there she is the sunshine that forms and keeps the sacred ties that bind more closely than 
any found outside the four dear walls of home. 


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^Hmteb ®atigf)terfi of tfje Confeberacp 



NE of the largest organizations of women in Tennessee, second only in numbers to 
the Tennessee hederation ol Women’s Clubs, is that one officially known as the Ten¬ 
nessee Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy. 


The Daughters in lennessee really began their work in the days when the war 
between the states raged, in 1861-65, tor in Nashville, a society was formed for the relief and 
caie of sick and disabled Confederate soldiers, with Mrs. Felicia Grundy Porter as President. 
This society was recognized officially by the secretary of war. 


Next came the Ladies’ Auxiliary to Fred Cheatham Bivouac at Nashville, to assist in 
securing a home tor disabled Confederate soldiers. This was twenty-two years ago. This 
auxiliary turned over to the trustees of the Soldiers’ Home, the first year, $6,200. 

In 1892 the idea was conceived by Mrs. Caroline Meriwether Goodlett, of Nashville, of 
uniting all auxiliaries of Southern women, throughout the South, in one body which was first 
called the National Daughters ot the Confederacy. Mrs. Goodlett was elected president, and 
Mrs. John P. Hickman, of Nashville, secretary. 

lhe second meeting was held March 3, 1895. At this meeting Georgia, Tennessee, and 
Texas were represented. At the next conference or meeting North and South Carolina came 
in. The next meeting held in Atlanta in November, 1895, found Virginia, Kentucky, Florida, 
and Maryland added to the list of states. Then it was that the name was changed to the 
United Daughters of the Confederacy. 


The first meeting of the Tennessee division was held in Nashville, January 21, 1897. 
Mrs. S. F. Wilson, first vice-president, presided. Since this first meeting conventions have 
been held as follows: Chattanooga, October 7, 1897—Mrs. Frank A. Moses, First Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, presiding. Jackson, May, 11, 1900—Mrs. J. T. McCutchen, Second Vice-President, pre¬ 
siding. Lebanon, May 8, 1901—Mrs. T. J. Latham, President. Nashville, May 14, 1902—Mrs. 
T. J. Latham, President. Clarksville, May 6, 1903—Mrs. T. J. Latham, President. Paris, May 
11, 1904—Mrs. W. G. Oehmig, President. Knoxville, May 17, 1905—Mrs. W. G. Oehmig, Presi¬ 
dent. Memphis, May 2, 1906—Mrs. A. B. White, President. Columbia, May 15, 1907—Mrs. A. 
B. White, President. Chattanooga, May 13, 1908—Mrs. M. B. Pilcher, President. Jackson, 
May, 1909—Mrs. M. B. Pilcher, President. Clarksville, May 11, 1910 — Mrs. R. H. Sansom, 
President. Nashville, May 10, 1911—Mrs. R. H. Sansom, President. Dayton, May 8, 1912—Mrs. 
Harriet E. Holland, President. Knoxville, May, 14, 1913—Mrs. Harriet E. Holland, President. 
Trenton, May 13, 1914—Mrs. Herbert N. Leech, President. Murfreesboro, May 12, 1915—Mrs. 
Herbert N. Leech, President. Johnson City, May 10, 1916—Mrs. J. Norment Powell, President. 

The objects of the United Daughters of the Confederacy are “memorial, historical, edu¬ 
cational, benevolent and fraternal. To honor those heroes who served in the Confederate 
army, navy or civil service. To collect, teach and preserve the true history of their service 
and motives, and to record their notable fortitude during the trying days of reconstruction. 
To care for and aid Confederate Veterans and and assist their descendants in securing an 
education. To honor the Southern women, who, with equal fortitude, endured the hardships 
of war and of an impoverished country and who gave so freely of their time and means. To 
foster the spirit of love and ties of friendship, thus drawing into closer bonds the members of 
the organization.” 

Each year the Tennessee division observes the birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee, January 
19; the birthday of President Jefferson Davis, June 3; the birthday of Sam Davis, October 6; 
the birthday of Raphael Seinmes, September 27; and Founders day, which is September 10. 

The Tennessee Daughters are very zealous of their very beautiful collection of chapter 
flags and the display of these flags is always one of the striking features of their annual con¬ 
ventions. The division also owns a splendid state flag which was presented by Mrs. John C. 
Brown, of Nashville. 


Each succeeding administration has been marked by splendid work done in behalf of the 
Confederate Veterans. Especially worthy of note was the administration of Mrs. Alexander 
B. White, of Paris, who served the division in 1906-07, and who is the only Tennesseean hon¬ 
ored with the office of president-general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She 
was elected at the Richmond convention of 1911 and served two years in that high office, 
being re-elected by acclamation at Washington in 1912. 

In one year of Mrs. White’s administration as division president, two thousand new 
members and seventeen new chapters were added, many chapters being organized personally 
by Mrs. White with large charter memberships. The organization of children’s auxiliaries 


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was also begun, Mrs. White organizing the first one at Paris. The marking of graves of the 
Confederate Veterans with C. S. A. was also begun; interest was aroused in the Confederate 
museum at Richmond, Va., and an impetus given to sending relics there. 

While attending a U. D. C. convention in San Francisco, Mrs. White obtained from the 
general organization a donation of $500.00 for the Sam Davis monument in Nashville, and 
induced the organization to take up the work of erecting a handsome Confederate monument 
at Shiloh National Military Park. A committee was named to take charge of this work and 
Mrs. White was appointed chairman with a director in every state. The personnel of this com¬ 
mittee was made permanent and Mrs. White has continued as chairman with the title of 
director-general. This monument, which is to cost $50,000 when completed, will be unveiled 
in September, 1916. 

In the building of another large Confederate monument Tennessee also played a leading 
role, the beautiful $50,000 structure in Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D. C., Mrs. J. W. 
Clapp, of Memphis, was appointed director of the Shiloh monument committee for Tennes¬ 
see, and it was through her efforts that the Tennessee division contributed $2,248.64 to this 
monument fund. The unveiling exercises were held on July 4, 1914. 

Many of the Tennessee division’s chapters have been active in the construction of monu¬ 
ments. In the following cities of Tennessee there are substantial evidences of their love for 
the heroic deeds of the Veterans: Union City, McMinnville, Memphis, Franklin, Murfrees¬ 
boro, Paris, Shelbyville, Gallatin, Knoxville, two; Jackson, Covington, Dyersburg, Pulaski, 
Bolivar, Clarksville, Chattanooga, Chickamauga National Park, three; Columbia, Lebanon 
Park, Fayetteville, Trenton, Ripley, Mt. Pleasant, Lewisburg, Brownsville. 

The educational work of the division was begun under Mrs. Joe Clift, of Chattanooga, 
each succeeding chairman bringing new interest and enthusiasm into the work, until today 
the Tennessee division has forty-one scholarships for award. 

The division has taken a great deal of interest in the Tennessee room in Confederate 
Museum at Richmond, Va. Many chapters in the state have contributed valuable relics, pic¬ 
tures and documents to this room. The Sarah Law Chapter of Memphis has contributed the 
magnificent Niehaus model of the Forrest statue, a replica of the one which stands in Forrest 
Park, Memphis. 

The historical feature, being the most vital work of the division, is given Large attention, 
the object of the Daughters being to see that the Confederate soldier is given his just place 
in history, and that the cause for which he fought is presented in its true light. Prizes are 
given annually for the best written bits of history and in essay contests, the topics being 
confined to Southern history. 

The greatest work that the Tennessee division does is to assist the state in the care of 
the old Confederate soldier. Especially are they interested in the hospital, which forms a 
very important part of Soldiers’ Home, near Nashville. The division and the individual chap¬ 
ters contribute everything possible, in money and supplies, to make the old Veterans com¬ 
fortable. 

Special days are set aside each year for the bestowal of Crosses of Honor, by chapters, 
upon the Confederate Veterans for loyal service in the war between the states. 

The Tennessee division had introduced into the legislature of 1915 a bill seeking an 
appropriation of ten thousand dollars for the Confederate Girls’ Home. It is proposed to 
build a memorial hall on the campus of Peabody College, Nashville, to be used as a dormi¬ 
tory by the daughters of the descendants of Confederate soldiers, who may seek an educa¬ 
tion in Peabody. The legislature gave the Daughters the ten thousand dollars sought with 
the proviso that the Daughters raise forty thousand for the erection of this memorial hall. 
Mrs. Tennie Pinkerton Dozier, of Franklin, Tenn., has been the chairman of the committee 
having this enterprise in charge since the inception of the movement. 

The Tennessee division, as at present constituted, consists of about eighty active chap¬ 
ters, with a membership roll slightly in excess of four thousand. The division has ever been 
mindful of the motto: “Faithful to the Memory of Our Ancestors.” 


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jflrg. (HJiUtam J^urne 

Nashville, Tenn. 

Mrs. William Hume is one of the best known and best beloved women in the State of Tennessee. 

She has been very prominent in the work of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ever since its 
organization. She was the first Historian of the Tennessee Division, and has rendered valuable service in 
this connection. She is also an honorary President of the Tennessee Daughters. 

The Mary Leland Hume Chapter, U. I). C., at Spring Hill, Tenn., is named in her honor. 

Her father, the late Dr. William A. Leland, a noted surgeon and physician, was born and reared in North¬ 
umberland County, Va., and was a cousin of “Light Horse” Harry Lee, the father of the great Confederate 
General. It is, therefore, but natural that the subject of this sketch should have been a charter member of 
the Virginia Society of Tennessee. 

She is, also, a prominent and active worker in the Colonial Dames, her ancestors having settled in old 
Virginia in the early Colonial times. 

The marriage of Miss Mary Leland to Major William Hume, of Nashville, occurred November 30, 1862, 
at Tuscaloosa, Ala., while Major Hume was stationed there in charge of Confederate troops. 

For many years Mrs. Hume has devoted much of her time to patriotic organizations and charitable and 
church work. 

After fifty years of married life, she is now widowed, and spending the evening of her life at “Leland 
Farm,” surrounded not only by her large family of children and grand-children, but by a very wide circle of 
friends, who wish her many added years of happiness. 


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jHrsi. H. $otoell 

Julia, daughter of William Braddock and Elizabetli Eggleston Seymour, of old Virginia stock, was born 
near Somerville, Fayette County, Tennessee, on December 22nd, 1833, and wedded to Dr. T. K. Powell, of Mem¬ 
phis, in 1861. She is of Norman-French extraction. The motto of their lives together was to be a blessing to 
those they served, and this inscription “He was a blessing to the people he served,” was carved upon the solid 
monument that marks his resting place at “Harmony Church,” Haywood County, Tenn. Mrs. Powell, while a 
woman of eighty-two years, is still actively interested in philanthropy. She contributed generously to the 
Baptist Memorial Hospital and Home for Incurables of Memphis, and to the Baptist State University of Jack- 
son. She is perhaps the oldest member of the alumni of the Model School of Tuscumbia, Ala. She belongs 
to the Forrest Chapter, U. D. C., and Cemetery Association of Brownsville, the Baptist Church and Missionary 
Society. Also a D. A. R., and a Daughter of the Eastern Star of the Masonic Fraternity at Somerville, Tenn. 
She has had extensive travel in the United States and, with many beautiful memories in mind, she has settled 
down to a quiet life surrounded by her loved ones at Brownsville, Tenn., in the old Colonial homestead and 
birthplace of Ex-Governor Joe Folk, of Missouri. She is also a strong advocate of the higher education of 
woman, for which purpose she has largely contributed. 


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Mrs. Robt. A. AlliSon 


QT1 )t JluSibora C. jfflcCorrp Chapter 

of Jackson, Tennessee. 

The Musidora C. McCorry Chapter, No. 5, U. D. C., was 
organized by Mrs. Belle Kelso Allison in 1894, with forty- 
three charter members. It was named for Miss Musidora C. 
McCorry, one of Jackson’s most lovable women, who was 
president of the Confederate Memorial Association; it was 
largely due to her efforts that the beautiful Confederate 
monument in Court Square was erected. 

We have a live membership, and for the past two years 
have held meetings in the homes of our members, enjoying 
fine historical papers, and a social hour. It is our rule to 
never refuse a call for help and we have liberally contributed 
to Shiloh, Arlington, Battle Abbey, Old Blandford Church, 
Educational Work, Soldiers’ Home (yearly) a $500.00 room in 
Confederate Girls’ Home, and among our contributions to the 
Tennessee room in Confederate Museum w 7 as a handsome oil 
portrait of Robt. E. Lee, and a large sum to the Sam Davis 
window. We have contributed, locally, to the Y. M. C. A., 
Civic League Hospital, monthly to Jackson’s Visiting Nurse 
have placed a memorial vase in Court Square, and for the past 
two years have co-operated with the Associated Charities. We 
have four scholarships in local schools that are used yearly 
by worthy descendants of Confederate Veterans. 

One of our most loved members, Mrs. Harriet Holland, 
served as State President for 1912-13. We point with pride 
to her administration, the chief beauty of which was harmony. 

Mrs. Birdie A. Owen is serving her sixth year as our presi¬ 
dent. The chapter is in a splendid condition, in interest and 
numbers, as well as financially, as is seen by the fact that the 
chapter has paid out $2,000.00 during her term of office. Mrs. 
Owen has been instrumental in the chapter bringing the Red- 
path Chautauqua here for the past three years, and a Lyceum 
Course the past winter. 


JJatfjan IBebforb Jfarrest Chapter 920 

of Humboldt. 

Nathan Bedford Forrest Chapter, 926, organized July 13, 1915, by Mrs. 
W. W. Baird, is one of the most active patriotic organizations in the 
South. The following official roll is sufficient guarantee for the preserva¬ 
tion of Confederate History and emulation of Confederate gallantry: Mrs. 
W. W. Baird, Honorary President; Mrs. Elizabeth Shyrock, Honorary Presi¬ 
dent; Mrs. J. D. Senter, Honorary President; Mrs. R. B. Walker, President; 
Miss Emma James, First Vice-President; Mrs. J. F. Warmoth, Second Vice- 
President; Mrs. W. M. McCall, Third Vice-President; Mrs. E. R. Wilson, Re¬ 
cording Secretary; Mrs. A. R. Dodson, Corresponding Secretary; Miss Mary 
LeMire Dodson, Treasurer; Mrs. Gilford Adams, Monument Treasurer; Mrs. 
Elizabeth Shyrock, Historian; Mrs. W. H. Roberts, Registrar; Miss America 
Johnson, Custodian; Mrs. H. N. Sharp, Reporter; Mrs. Sue Dunlap, Chaplain. 




jUrsc a. P. $icfeett 

A kinswoman of Gen. Winfield Scott and Frances Scott, of Virginia, and 
a woman of highest culture and refinement—a wife and mother whose 
first interests were ever her home, her husband, and her children. The 
late Alfred Brown Pickett attributed his own splendid career to her whose 
gentle administrations and ideal character made home for himself and 
their children the one place above all others. Since his death Mrs. Pickett 
has faced and overcome obstacles that would have easily daunted a less 
brave heart than hers. Her life has not been given to clubs, but to the 
rearing of an ideal family, and the inculcation of highest principles has 
been her pleasure as well as her duty. In the passing of the busy years 
she has found time to give of her best to others—the cheery word, the 
kindly smile, and the clasp of the encouraging extended hand. 

Before her marriage, which event took place when she was but sixteen 
years of age, she was Miss Julia Maria Stainback, of Memphis, Tennessee. 


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One of the most popular girls in her girlhood home, Memphis, Tennessee, as a matron, Mrs. Campbell is 
equally prominent. Graduating from the University of Nashville, she early in life joined the ranks of the 
matrons, and has reared a family to whom she is a real companion. Her many calls within her home did not 
deter her from other duties. She founded the Casey Young Chapter, U. D. C., and was president of that organi¬ 
zation for three years. Maiden name was Casey Young Miller, named for, and close relation, of the Hon. Casey 
Young, of Memphis, congressman and prominent attorney, for whom the Chapter is named. Her interest in 
club life is very active, and as broad as it is energetic. She has been chosen sponsor for Company A, U. D. C., 
for six different reunions. Has served as Matron of Honor for Tennessee Division at the Macon Reunion, and 
chaperone for Company A, U. C. V., and Confederate Historical Reunion at Richmond. Pretty, popular, and 
gifted with splendid personality and charm, Mrs. Campbell puts forth her greatest efforts in the uplift of 
humanity, and matters pertaining to the U. D. C. 


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Helen M. Nelson was born at Beaconville, near Brownsville, in 
Haywood County, Tennessee. She graduated at Brownsville 
bemale C.ollege and later, in 1863, married Mr. James Bond, who 
died in 1880. Mrs. Bond then became her own business manager 
of family affairs. She is proud to be called a home woman 
and mother, hut she broadened her home to include her 
church and all its various departments, and as far and wher¬ 
ever she found a physical, moral or spiritual need that she 
held the means to satisfy. She is a generous contributor and 
active worker for the United Charities. She is interested in 
child welfare. She helps in the mountain work, the uplift of 
girls and social reform. She believes that social uplift should 
follow an evil doer beyond the prison hars to win back the 
purity of the soul he had when an innocent little child. She 
belongs to no clubs but many a club member has done less 
for the club welfare of Tennessee than this fine noble woman. 
She is not a suffragist and yet believes in woman’s indirect 
influence for the betterment of political conditions. “I believe 
in getting behind the men,” she says. Brownsville has a 
library given by Mr. Carnegie and Mrs. Bond has been much 
interested in keeping it up to its fullest capacity of useful¬ 
ness to the school children and the community at large. She 
is the mother of two sons, the sister of all mankind and the 
friend of every good cause. 


iitrss. C. 3 . Hotorance 

Maggie Aderholdt was born at Friars Point, Mississippi, and 
attended the public schools of that place, later being married 
to C. J. Lowrance. With her husband she came to Memphis 
to make her future home and became identified with the Pres¬ 
byterian Church of Memphis, in which she is an active mem¬ 
ber. She teaches a class in the Sunday School and is an 
earnest worker for the missionary cause. Being a Christian 
woman she is naturally interested in Child Welfare, Uplift 
of Girls, Mountain Work, Social Reform and all other work 
being done for the help of humanity. She is a mother of 
two healthy sons and a happy daughter, and is an active mem¬ 
ber of the Parent-Teacher Association, the school where her 
children spend so much of their time being the one place 
where she feels an interest equal to that of her own home. The 
impressions on the mind of children are of far more import¬ 
ance than the food for the body, is her theory, and all things 
else are subordinate to the proper training of her children. 
As to the question of Equal Suffrage for Women, Mrs. Low¬ 
rance is neutral, never having given the cause the amount of 
study necessary to form an opinion. She believes that time 
and the able minds now at work over the matter will bring 
about a proper adjustment. Mrs. Lowrance believes in seeing 
America first and has confined her travel to her native coun¬ 
try, in which she has found some very interesting points of 
interest. Her address is No. 773 Snowden Circle, Memphis. 



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Prominent in the social and club world of Memphis, and the surrounding territory, Mrs. Bettie T. Gray is also 
greatly beloved for her many deeds of charity, her quiet unassuming manner, her own charming personality, 
all of which has made her name not only beloved, but revered. Mrs. B. T. Gray, formerly Miss Odom, was 
born near Jackson, Tennessee, in 18.36. At the age of four years her father moved to his plantation in DeSoto 
County, Mississippi, where she was reared. She was educated in the Baptist College in Hernando, and was 
valedictorian of her class. In 1859 she married Dr. William Byrd Gray—a great nephew of Col. William Byrd 
of Virginia. Mrs. Gray was left a widow in 1878 with four children. Mrs. Gray has Revolutionary blood in 
her veins; is a descendant of General Joseph Warrens—but delights more in her Confederate blood—never lets 
an opportunity pass to say, “I am not ashamed of the South’s past.” She is a Presbyterian and has been 
either a pupil or a teacher in Sunday schools for seventy years. She is an honored member of her son, Dr. 
Wm. Byrd Gray’s family in Memphis. Her entire life has been one of Christian charity, and as a result one 
can almost see the halo of the light reflected through. Mrs. Gray is blessed with the following children: 
W. B. Gray, Mrs. W. O. Mason, Mrs. .1. T. Merrian and Mrs. A. W. Maxwell. 


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JHrS. Albert &u££ell Bobsion 

Humboldt, Term. 

Mattie Bell, daughter of William Carroll and Mary Clement Scott, was 
born in Dresden, Tenn. After graduating from Mrs. Clark’s Select School 
at Nashville, married Mr. A. R. Dodson, banker. Their daughter, Mary 
Lemire, a graduate of Union University and Randolph-Macon Woman’s 
College, is talented in music, art and domestic science. Mrs. Dodson is 
a charter member and officer in the Nathan Bedford Forrest Chapter U. 
D. C.; originator and chairman of the Sam Davis Memorial Window, 
placed by Tennessee Division in the Confederate Museum, Richmond; 
served as secretary of Argonaut Club; chairman of Tuberculosis Exhibit 
of Tennessee Federation at Tri-County Fair. She is an active member of 
the Baptist Church; served as president of Missionary and Ladies’ Aid 
Societies; awards a loving cup for excellency of service; represented 
Women’s Work at Tennessee and Southern Baptist conventions. She is 
interested in benevolent work and civic improvement; has traveled exten¬ 
sively, and a lover of her home “The Maples.” 

Jilrs. g>ara Henrp Hoob 

Sara Henry was born at the old Henry Homestead,Blount County,Tennes¬ 
see, and was carefully educated for a teacher at Maryville College. She 
was married to General Robert N. Hood, a prominent East Tennessee 
lawyer, whose untimely death left her a widow in 1892. While still a 
school girl, she became an earnest advocate of women’s clubs, and, with 
others, was instrumental in founding the first college society for women 
in the state, the Bainonian. In her ardent suffrage work, Mrs. Hood dis¬ 
plays the spirit of her ancestral kinsman, Patrick Henry, while her literary 
and artistic tastes, inherited from a gifted mother and grandmother, have 
rendered her a useful and honored member of various clubs of Knoxville 
and Maryville. Mrs. Hood’s best public service has been in the department 
of Mountain Settlement Work—having acted as chairman of this depart¬ 
ment, which office she resigned to take up her abode in the “Hills of Chil- 
howee,” where she is now living as a “neighbor among neighbors”—super¬ 
vising the Rocky Branch School, presiding over the new Teacherage recently 
built by the State Federation, and making it the vital and inspiring center 
of the community. 





jfflrsu Sam eg 9. 9nber$on 


Mrs. James A. Anderson, as Anna Hale Morrow, is a native of Knoxville, 
Knox County, Tennessee, and still lives near that city. She is a member 
of the Shannondale Presbyterian Church and takes an active part in the 
work of her church and the Y. W. C. A. But her greatest energy has been 
expended for the Cause of Temperance. As a leader of the Woman’s 
Christian Temperance Union she labored continuously to advance the 
cause, and throughout her community and beyond it her influence was 
felt. Whenever there was an election she spent the day at the polls, dis¬ 
tributing literature, and using her influence to correct the evil of illegal 
voting. She is a most generous contributor to all worthy causes brought 
to her attention. She is a little woman with a big heart and a will and 
determination to match it and while she is spiritually inclined, all influ¬ 
ences for evil in her territory realize that she is a fighter, whenever she 
starts out to fight wrongs of any kind. 


Jffliss Htna £>. &etnfjolbs 


One of the leading young business women of the south, Miss Rein¬ 
holds, has established for herself a prominent place as a representative 
of the younger generation of Tennessee women. A Memphis girl, she was 
educated in the schools of this city, and assumed management of the bus¬ 
iness of her brother-in-law, Mr. N. O. Elk, of the Ellis Seal and Stamp 
works, his death necessitating her taking either full control or giving up 
the splendid work she had accomplished. 

Miss Reinholds has traveled extensively in the United States and 
Europe. She has no club affiliations, but is interested in the mountain 
work and the uplift of girlhood. While not an active suffragette, she is in 
sympathy with the cause. She is an artist in the true sense ot design and 

decoration. . 

Although very young in years, Miss Reinholds is far on the road to 

“Success.” 


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GTfje <f^trlsi’ Jfrtenblp S>ouetp 

By Mrs. Richard Wood McCargo, 
Honorary Associate G. F. S. 


Gills Friendly Society in America is not a federated club, but a national organiza- 
tion, which is doing in Tennessee, as it is everywhere, practical helpful work for busi¬ 
ness women, and so, is in line with the work of the Federation. 

Although a church organization, with its officers all communicants of the Episco¬ 
pal Church, it is absolutely non-sectarian in its work, not requiring membership in any 
church from its members. 


The only absolute requisite for membership is a virtuous character. Given that, the 
doors are open to any woman who will pay the sum of 36 cents annually, as dues. This gives 
a woman all the privileges of the Girls’ Friendly Society, the use of its rooms, its library, 
classes, and lectures, and also the interest and friendship of the earnest Christian women who 
do the active work as officers. 

In Tennessee, the largest work of the Girls’ Friendly Society, is done in Knoxville and 
Memphis. Knoxville, which has given the Federation its state president, has also given the 
Girls Friendly Society a national vice-president, Miss Helen Turner, who was one of the 
pioneers in the local branch. 


I he first Girls’ Friendly Society branch was organized in Knoxville in 1893. The work 
began with weekly meetings, lectures and other entertainments for the members. 

In 1904, some of the officers, realizing that Knoxville had no place where a working 
woman could go for a noonday lunch and rest, established, by great personal sacrifice and 
constant work, the Girls’ Friendly Society rest rooms. At first the work was on a very small 
scale and was done entirely by voluntary workers. 

But the rest rooms were so much needed and appreciated that the work grew beyond the 
possibility of volunteer management. It is now self-supporting, and employs a capable man¬ 
ager, Miss Froneberger, one of the pioneer workers, who has several paid helpers. 

It is assisted by many volunteers, as waitresses and cashiers, and the presence of cul¬ 
tured, refined women in these capacities, gives a dignity and attractiveness to the rooms 
which is very helpful. 

This is practical social service work. Every day from 150 to 200 business women are 
served with a wholesome lunch, in a place which they feel is theirs exclusively. 

The menu is varied each day, but all dishes are three cents, except meat, which is five 
cents. For fifteen cents one may enjoy a three-course luncheon of well-prepared food. 

Adjoining the dining-room is a large rest room with dressing room. It is furnished with 
comfortable couches and chairs for the weary workers, and has a table laden with magazines 
which are supplied by friends, and are in great demand. There is also a circulating library, 
given by friends, which is absolutely free, and is largely used. 

This work is not done for Girls’ Friendly Society members only. The rooms are open to 
all business women, and are used by hundreds who are not members. The only unwelcome 
guests are the idle shoppers, who want an economical lunch. 

The efficient treasurer of the rest rooms, Miss Frances Nelson, reports that the receipts 
for last year were $5,309.00. It seems a marvelous sum obtained from lunches averaging about 
ten cents. 


In addition to the work of the rest rooms, the Girls’ Friendly Society assists the Y. W. C. 
A. traveler’s aid, the juvenile court, and other local charities, and has a fund for sick and 
needy members, which has helped in some cases of real distress. 

The branch secretary, Miss Cornelia McGhee Cowan, gives practically all her time to the 
Girls’ Friendly Society work in all its lines, and arranges social, devotional, and educational 


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features for the weekly meetings. Prof. C. W. Turner, of the University of Tennessee, gives 
monthly lectures on Current Events, which are largely attended, and Knoxville’s talent, in all 
lines, has been freely given to the “Friendly.” 

This detailed account of Girls’ Friendly Society work in Knoxville is given at the request 
ot oui Federation President, because Knoxville organized the work in Tennessee, and has 
been the leader in this branch of social service. 

In Memphis, the Girls’ Friendly Society, under the leadership of Mrs. Nannie Gailor Dur- 
i ell, Mrs. Brinkley Snowden, Miss Montgomery Cooper and others, is doing an extensive work 
along the same lines. The Memphis branch, wipch is very large, has established sub-divisions 
in the principal department stores, with a girl in the store at the head of each. 

It also has a Girls’ Friendly Society Lodge for business women, which is always filled 
and has a lunch room in connection with it. 

In Chattanooga, the Girls’ Friendly Society has done good work. In the smaller towns it 
is not needed so much, as it is intended primarily for the business woman. 



3 jfflountam ^djool J^ouSe 


C RUDE as it looks, it marks the beginning of educational work in the mountains. In other parts of the 
Smokies they have better school houses, but they all had their beginning in a similar way. The lumber 
was given by the mountaineers—ofttimes it is carried on shoulders, and the little house built by the 
people, so eager are some of them—most of them—for the light of education. Brainy little fellows are 
the majority of the pupils in the little log school house, many of whom will write their names in the 
Hall of Fame. 

At the most the school terms are not long and are held only in opportune seasons, that is, when the 
children are not needed in the fields. Some times, in fact, many times, the little fellows trudge miles and 
miles to the school house, their little piece of dry, hard corn pone with them for lunch. Wild as their own 
mountain squirrels, they shy at the approach of strangers, and wise is the teacher who first wins their con¬ 
fidence—then her battle is half won. The mountain teacher’s mission is a very different one from the work 
of those who teach in the city schools. Her pupils, and their parents, look upon her as some one super¬ 
natural, or else they do not approve of her at all. The little ones who come to her in the old log school 
house have, after a time, confidence in and love for her, yet they have to hear the home folks talk, and, 
should this be against her, it doubles her task. Like every woodland or mountain wild thing, once made to 
know that only loving kindness is intended, their loyalty is beautiful, and once your friend, they remain so, 
“through their hull kith and kin.” 


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&f)e 3$ork of tfje J^ome of tfje <^oob S>f)epf)erb 

By Susie Harrington Russell. 

/||3| UTSIDE 8 a tes of the city—far away from the haunts of crime, we find it—this Home 
Vhr ot the Good Shepherd, surrounded by beautiful slopes and green shaded valleys, 
wooded tracts, whose lullaby in every season is like some old sweet song of home. 
1 here are broken hearts within, memories crushed by weight of grief, instead of weight of 
years memories hushed forever in the incense laden air, the after glow of a better life. 
There unt ortunate girlhood is not treated as criminal outcast, nor degenerate, but as one 
who is sick and weary, and who needs the loving care of home. The sisters have learned 
that girls do not deliberately throw their lives away; that Calvarys are mounted every day, 
when lonely girlhood climbs attic steps to lonelier room, and that not one can say how 
long that heart has ached in loneliness before the frail young footsteps turned down the 
path that leads away and afar from the gates of home—but never leads back again. They 
have learned, too, that aching hearts are ofttimes hidden beneath an air of bravado. Young 
lives are cruelly hurt by words as well as deeds—words that ofttimes have been the weight 
in the scales when the paths of innocence and vice have met, mayhap, too, when that hour 
came and the darkness of despair was in the young heart, the mother was sleeping in 
some kirkyard low. It is not always men who have to answer for those who have strayed 
from the told—it is more often the women, as any social worker knows. 

While the Good Shepherd Home is under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church, 
they make no distinction of creed, for those of all creeds, and those of none are sheltered 
there. It was founded in Memphis in the early 70’s, and through shadow and in sunshine 
the sisters have stood faithfully by the people of the Bluff City. In 1878, Mother Mary Joseph 
gave up her life and two of the sisters were martyr heroines of the fever of that year. The 
work of the Home is splendidly recognized in the support that it receives from the people 
of Memphis. It is practically three institutions in one, for it is so arranged as to be three 
homes—one for the Magdalenes, one for the Reformatory, and one for the Preservation 
class. Not one member of one home comes in contact at any time with one from the other 
division. Girls are received from Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee, and some¬ 
times from Georgia, as well as other states, whose cities yearly exact the toll of human 
souls as the price for a chance to live. The sisters consecrate their lives without compen¬ 
sation, to this work of rescue. They never solicit, nor do they ever coerce a girl to enter 
the institution, except when by order of the court she is placed there. Every form of domestic 
science is taught in the Home. All reference to previous habit or conduct before they entered 
the Home is strictly prohibited, and in no case is evil ever discussed or referred to by either 
sisters or girls. Every day is absolutely a new beginning. The order was founded over 
sixty years ago in France, and now in the United States alone this order has over fifty Houses 
of Refuge. They are not endowed, nor have they any income except that derived from the 
work of the Home and from the charity of the good-hearted people who give to the brown- 
robed sisters seeking alms from door to door. Cities exact a fearful toll the long years 
through; business is some times slow, but crime has ever kept its pace—flotsam and jet¬ 
sam of girlhood—pass through the Good Shepherd door. 


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21 Complete Foster of Clubs;, JHemberg of tfje ^Tennessee Jf eberatton of 
(Moment Clubs;, on (October 1st, 1916, is as follotos: 


Ashland City— 

Woman’s club. 

Study club. 

Athens— 

Browning Circle. 

Bell Buckle— 

Book club. 

Civic league. 

Bethpage— 

Twentieth Century club. 

Bristol— 

Woman’s History club. 

Gibbons’ History club. 

Brownsville— 

Twentieth Century club. 

Review club. 

Wednesday Morning Music club. 

Carthage— 

MacDowell club. 

Centerville— 

Booklovers’ club. 

Thursday Music club. 

Homemakers’ club. 

Chattanooga— 

City Beautiful club. 

Consumers’ league. 

Free Kindergarten association. 

North Chattanooga Book club. 
Kosmos club. 

Kosmos Cottage association. 

Pro Re Bona club. 

Pro Re Bona auxiliary. 

W. C. T. U. 

Woman’s club. 

Expression club. 

Art Study club. 

Ridgedale W. C. T. U. 

Shakespeare club. 

East Chattanooga W. C. T. U. 

South Side W. C. T. U. 

St. Elmo W. C. T. U. 

Writers’ club. 

Parliamentary club. 

East Chattanooga Civic league. 
Junior Woman’s club. 

Scribblers’ club. 

North Side club. 

Clarksville— 

Wednesday club. 

Students’ club. 

Monday Evening Music club. 

Cleveland— 

City Beautiful club. 

Music Lovers’ club. 

W. C. T. U. 

Columbia— 

Students’ club. 

Cosmopolitan club. 

Thursday club. 

Music Study club. 

Cookeville— 

Current Topic club. 

Mothers’ asssociation. 

Covington— 

Mothers’ Self Culture club. 

Cumberland Gap— 

Woman’s Board of Lincoln Memorial 
university. 

Dyersburg— 

Woman’s club. 

Elizabeth ton— 

Mutual Improvement club. 

Draper Mothers’ club. 

Englewood— 

Mothers’ club. 

Fayetteville— 

Alpha Kappa Literary Civic club. 
Round Dozen club. 

Homemakers’ club. 


Gallatin— 

Sumner Woman's club. 

Ensemble club. 

Greeneville— 

Cherokee club. 

Mothers’ Culture club. 

Harriman— 

Contemporary club. 

Drama Study club. 

Music club. 

Woman’s club. 

Harrogate— 

Woman’s Faculty club. 

Hixson— 

Improvement league. 

Hohenwald— 

Homemakers’ club. 

Huntingdon— 

Woman’s club. 

Jackson— 

Art and Travel club. 

McDowell club. 

Mutual Improvement club. 

Woman's club. 

Whitehall Parent-Teachers’ association. 
West Jackson Parent-Teachers’ associa¬ 
tion. 

Jefferson Citj — 

Present Day club. 

Jellico— 

Lanier club. 

Johnson City— 

Monday club. 

Wednesday Morning Music club. 

Jonesboro— 

Schubert club. 

W. C. T. U. 

Knoxville— 

Ossoli circle. 

East Tenn. Registered Nurses’ associa¬ 
tion. 

City Beautiful league. 

Park Directors’ association. 

Ladies’ Auxiliary O. R. C. 

Tuesday Music club. 

Lenoir City— 

Cleonian club. 

Lewisburg— 

Marshall County Woman's club. 

Lexington— 

Review club. 

Lookout Mountain— 

City Beautiful club. 

Lynnville— 

Homemakers’ club. 

Manchester— 

Civic league. 

Martin— 

Twentieth Century club. 

Philharmonic Music club. 

W. C. T. U. 

Fortnightly club. 

Maryville— 

Chilhowee club. 

Tuesday club. 

McMinnville— 

Civic league. 

Memphis— 

Nineteenth Century club. 

Columbine Book club. 

Memphis and Shelby County Graduate 
Nurses’ association. 

Salon circle. 

West Tenn. Graduate Nurses’ associa¬ 
tion. 

Woman’s club. 

Alpha Book club. 

Beethoven Club. 

Frisco Women’s Safety league. 


Morristown— 

Etude club. 

Ladies’ Reading circle. 

Soma Sala circle. 

Coterie club. 

Mt. Pleasant— 

Booklovers’ club. 

Mountain City— 

Wednesday Music club. 

Nashville— 

Review club. 

Friday Literary club. 

East Side Civic club. 

Inquirers’ club. 

Magazine circle. 

Peabody Woman’s club. 

Belmont Magazine circle. 

Woman’s Federation of South Nashville. 
Middle Tenn. Graduate Nurses’ associa¬ 
tion. 

Twentieth Century club. 

Story Tellers’ league. 

Woman’s Board State Fair. 

Rutledge Magazine club. 

Charlotte Roads Homemakers' club. 
Metaphysical club. 

Keramic club. 

Halcyon club. 

Newberne— 

Bay View Reading circle. 

Newport— 

Twentieth Century Mothers’ club. 

Seria Sabia. 

Paris— 

Woman’s club. 

Pleasant View— 

Laurel club. 

Pulaski— 

Homemakers’ club of Pleasant Valley. 
Students’ club. 

Wednesday Literary club. 

Civic league. 

Rossville— 

Educational league. 

Sewanee— 

Civic league. 

Shelbyville— 

Monday Afternoon club. 

Music Study club. 

Civic league. 

Springfield— 

Music club. 

Troy— 

Fin de Siecle club. 

Tullahoma— 

Civic league. 

Union City— 

Review club. 

White- 

Cherry circle. 

White Pine— 

Bay View club. 

Whiteville— 

Inter Se club. 


Whitehaven— 

Kennedy Book club. 


Winchester— 

Twentieth Century club. 


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JSmeteentf) Centurp Club, Jflempljtsi 


3 MAGINA TION, aspiration, admiration, sentiment, these are sources of inspiration. Under 
their combined influences the Nineteenth Century Club was conceived, and by their united 
force was urged forward, developed and wrought into the symmetry and strength which 
it exhibits today. 

Founded by Mrs. Elise Massey Selden in 1890, federated in 1891, chartered in 1892, it 
immediately won a position of dignity and inlluence notwithstanding the fact that popular 
sentiment at the time was not quite in sympathy with the movement. 

The original purpose was not so much to compass the evolution and growth of culture 
as to concentrate and make a center for culture—that culture which destroys at once nar¬ 
rowness and exaggeration, which tends to a broad comprehension of the course of things 
and stimulates a wide, generous, intelligent and fearless consideration of the great issues of 
the day. 


The activities of the club have reached into many fields and given expression to the 
most practical as well as the most ideal conceptions. It has been potentially connected with 
the largest educational developments, with improved hospital conditions, with the installa¬ 
tion ot police and station matrons, with the establishment of the Juvenile Court, the Tuber¬ 
culosis Hospital, and the introduction of Domestic Science. It has vigorously encouraged 
and aided settlement work in the Tennessee mountains and advocated and assisted in a 
movement for the practical training of the blind. The children of the city have been in a 
sense the wards of the club through “The Story Hour,” inaugurated many years ago, and 
its Teachers’ Loan Fund has proved of inestimable value to young teachers unable without 
it to afford enlarged opportunities. 

It can not be denied that the trend of civilization is unfavorable to the development of 
marked and distinctive types of character. This is an age of machine made products in which 
the great machine of education sends out scores of individuals showing no preponderating 
characteristics nor differences. They may have been, in many, when starting upon the career 
of education, strong predilections which finding no encouragement nor opportunity, disap¬ 
peared from the mental consciousness. 

Such a club as the Nineteenth Century offers immense scope for the correction of the 
results of this tendency. Its departments and classes in foreign languages, history, travel, 
literature, art, poetry, music and the drama, each affords opportunity for the woman who 
wishes to establish and maintain the integrity of her individuality, and the esthetic charac¬ 
ter of its calisthenic department, the refreshing seclusion of its private natatorium, make 
for physical poise and development. 

While it is on the whole, eminently an organization of co-operative purpose, it encour¬ 
ages the conservation of personal power and capacity, and wherever the woman may be 
placed, whether in the highest sphere, that of home, or elsew'here, her individuality, thus 
vitalized, will be more effective. 

It has been said that the germ of a great event may lie in the smallest occurrence of life, 
In a seemingly small occurrence — the meeting of a few women — lay the germs of an 
endeavor which has enriched many lives, proved a stimulus to many souls, and which, by its 
fructifying and uplifting influences has placed the Nineteenth Century Club, among the 
most powerful factors for good in the community wJiich it honors. It has supplied a con¬ 
genial meeting place for those committed to large activities, and numbered among its guests 
representatives of the realms of state, religion and intellect. Numerous noble and altruistic 
movements have had their inception here. Countless purposes for good have been energized 
and set in motion, and with a broad, cordial, uplifting sympathy pervading the five hundred 
members, it reaches out to women of the state, the country, the world, with an appeal for fed¬ 
erated effort towards the largest good of humanity. 


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Wotk of tfje JgasfjtiiUe, ^ennesteee Section 
Council of 3Tetrjtsf) domett 


National Council of Jewish Women is now in the twenty-third year of its existence. 
It originated in Chicago at the Columbian World’s Fair, at the Religious Congress. The 
object then was to bring about closer relations among Jewish women by an organic 
union; to furnish a medium for interchange of thought and a means of communication and of 
prosecuting work of common interest; to further united efforts in the work of social bet¬ 
terment through religion, philanthropy and education. 

Now the outlook is broader and the council undertakes to further all work for the uplift 
of humanity socially and physically, and particularly that for the education and protection 
of girls and women. It provides the Jewish women with a means of co-operating with 
other National Women’s organizations with whose ideals they sympathize and whose objects 
they endorse and desire to further. 


The council is made up of seventy-three sections with a membership numbering twenty 
thousand. Tennessee is represented by two sections; Nashville and Chattanooga. All sec¬ 
tions work under the same constitution, but adopt work suited to local conditions. 

The Nashville section, Council of Jewish Women, was organized in 1901, with Mrs. 
Joseph Fensterwald as its first president, and a membership of sixty; and like any organiza¬ 
tion with earnest workers and a broad field of work, has steadily grown. Today it boasts a 
membership of three hundred and twenty-nine. 

Its first philanthropic work was a free kindergarten. Gradually other classes were added, 
such as sewing, domestic science and gardening. During these first years of work the coun¬ 
cil was greatly indebted to the United Charities for the use of their rooms for these 
activities; to the students of the Methodist Training School for their help in conducting 
various classes; and to the Vine Street Temple and Young Men’s Hebrew Association for meet¬ 
ing places. 

In September, 1909, largely aided by the gift of a suitable building by Mr. Joseph Fen¬ 
sterwald, in the memory of his wife, the Bertha Fensterwald Settlement, or Social Center as it 
is now called, was established. This institution is non-sectarian. Following is a chart of 
the activities in connection with the Fensterwald Social Center today: 


Educational Work. 

1. Baby Welfare: (a) Milk station and city nurse; (b) medical inspection (clinics) 
physical, general, skin, dental; (c) first aids; (d) loan closet. 

2. Work of committee for the Blind (a) assisted in establishing a room in Carnegie 
library; (b) visiting committee, reading, social service, occupation; (c) actions for prevention 
of blindness. 

3. Classes: (a) Kindergarten; (b) English classes for foreigners; sewing, plain, embroid¬ 
ery, crocheting; (d) cooking; (e) millinery; (f) music; (g) dancing; (h) gymnasium; (i) ele¬ 
mentary carpentry. 

4. Clubs: (a) Boys, debating, literary, civic; (b) girls, literary, little helpers, hiking; (c) 
adults, mothers, social. 

5. Library, games, study room, reading room. Bertha Lee Penny Savings bank. 

6. Hannah Hirsh summer camp for working women and babies. 

7. Playground and summer school: Games, organized and unorganized; occupation, 
baths, outings, story telling, singing. 

Public Affairs. 

1. Educational: (a) lectures; (b) concerts, (c) debates. 

2. Social: Entertainments, dancing, social parties, outings. 

Great emphasis is laid on the Immigrant Aid work, which is done thiough the Immigrant 
Aid department of the National Council, which has agents in all sea poits ol the country. 
The local committees on Immigrant Aid are advised of the coming of immigrant girls and 
women to their city that they may direct and give them moral, social and educational aid. 
Special mention should be made of the work of the committee foi the blind. Thiough the 
indefatigable efforts and almost superhuman patience ol Mrs. John P. Frank, its chairman, 
a bill was passed in the Tennessee legislature on April 3, 1915, to prescribe and regulate the 


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treatment of the eyes of newly born children to prevent blindness. She, with her commit¬ 
tee also succeeded in getting the governor to appoint a permanent state commission to 
give special study and effort to the work. 

Mrs. Frank and the Philanthropic committee have been furnishing hot breakfasts for the 
past two years to the school children in the factory districts, who otherwise would go with¬ 
out. A nominal charge of one cent a breakfast is made, and where the child is too poor to 
pay, such delicacy and tact is used that the child is not made to feel the dependency of accept¬ 
ing it. A baby gown club is also conducted and hundreds of these gowns are distributed each 
year to the hospitals and poor. 

The committee on Purity of the Press have done much successful work in this line, and 
with the co-operation of other organizations succeeded in having brought to some of our 
picture shows appropriate pictures for children. They are endeavoring to get the govern¬ 
ment to establish a Federal Bureau of Censorship of Moving Pictures. 

The council co-operates with many civic organizations in the city, among these the Trav¬ 
elers’ Aid, Vice Commission, Central Health Committee, and Milk and Ice Commission. 

Notable among the new 7 movements launched recently by the Nashville section is the 
Big Brother movement. Though in its infancy, much good is already manifest and many a 
wayward boy is being steered in the right channels by his so-called Big Brother. 

One of the special local committees is knowrn as the Flow T er Memorial Committee, to 
whom is sent money which would otherwise be expended for flow T ers sent at funerals, the 
bereaved family being notified of the memorial gifts by the committee. 

This Flower Memorial Fund is used to finance an Educational and Vocational Depart¬ 
ment, through which the poor boy or girl is educated in the pursuit for which he is best 
fitted, his parents being aided meanwiiile, if necessary, by supplying the amount of wages 
he (the child) would be earning if at work. 

For several years there has been in connection with the Nashville section, Council of 
Jewish Women, a Parliamentary Study circle, which has been of inestimable aid to its 
members. In fact the council is a live organization, ever on the alert for an opportunity to 
improve itself, that it might be of greater service to humanity. 


Roman’s Christian temperance Wovk tn tennessiee 



INCE 1882, when the first chapter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union w 7 as 
organized in Tennessee, at Nashville, by Miss Frances Willard, founder of the order, 
the movement in Tennessee has spread until today there are 250 unions in Tennessee, 
with a total membership of close to five thousand. 

The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union is the largest woman’s organization in the 
world. It is organized in over fifty countries and has more than a half million members. 
In the United States its present membership is close to the three hundred thousand mark. 
Of this nation-wide and world-wide movement the Tennessee union is a part. 


The first president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Tennessee was Mrs. 
J. C. Johnson of Nashville. She was succeeded by Mrs. Lide Merriwether of Memphis, who 
served thirteen years as state president and did a great deal of important w 7 ork. Mrs. Silena 
M. Holman of Fayetteville, came next, she serving as state president from 1899 until her death 
about two years ago. She w 7 as a woman of broad spiritual insight, until ing energy and 
optimism. Much w 7 as accomplished in a legislative w r ay wJiile she was at the head of the 
work in Tennessee. 

To the work of the faithful members, more than to any other one agency, can be attrib¬ 
uted the early growth of the temperance movement in Tennessee, which finally reached such 
proportions as to demand and secure state-wide prohibition. The ladies laboied laigely along 
educational lines, seeing that speakers struck telling blows, and that floods of literature were 
sent broadcast over the state. Scientific temperance was taught Tennessee teacheis and by 
them, in turn, to Tennessee boys and girls. 

Ned only along temperance lines has the union done elTecti\e legislati\e work, for it 
also claims that what it did in behalf of the bill raising the age of consent in Tennessee, 
the ouster law, locker club law, and others largely helped bringing about the results sought. 


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j§>alon Circle 

Memphis, Tenn. 

Entering its twenty-fifth year of activity and fostering talent, educa¬ 
tion and civic reform. 

Officers elected for two years: President, Mrs. Myer M. Gattman; First 
Vice-President, Mrs. Harry Lewis; Second Vice-President, Mrs. H. Bluthen- 
thal; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Ben Wolf; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. 
A. Lin Davis; Treasurer, Mrs. Leon Becker. Department leaders appointed 
by president: Calendar, Mrs. Louis Levi; Music, Mrs. Ben Goodman; Ger¬ 
man Senior, Mrs. Albert Wolff; German Junior, Mrs. Angelo Wasserman; 
German Primary, Mrs. Ben Wolf; French, Mrs. I. Samelson; Shakespeare, 
Mrs. J. D. Marks; Modern Literature, Mrs. Joseph Frost; Interpretative 
Reading, Miss Florence Schloss; Civic Reform, Mrs. Henry Posert; Domes¬ 
tic Science, Mrs. Alex Benjamin; Hospitality, Mrs. Henry Nathan; Pub¬ 
licity, Miss Helene Samfield and Mrs. Leon Becker; Membership, Mrs. Mark 
Davis, nestor of club. 


Ut\)t Roman’s Club of Jackson 

The Woman’s Club of Jackson, Tennessee, is a strong local factor. It was founded by Mrs. Will P. Dabney 
and Mrs. John W. Buford; organized at the home of Mrs. Dabney, May 7th, 1908, with twenty-three representa¬ 
tive women present, all realizing the importance and the need of a Woman’s Club that would not only encour¬ 
age broad and general culture, develop individual taste and effort in its members, but would also seek to accom¬ 
plish definite municipal work and to aid all worthy causes by organized effort. This was the spirit which gave 
it birth, and remains until today the object of its existence. It was immediately affiliated with the State Fed¬ 
eration of Women’s Clubs, to which it has ever been a loyal body. 

The Club has been active and progressive under the presidents given below 7 , as they served: First 
year, Mrs. Will P. Dabney; second, Mrs. John W. Buford; third, Mrs. Frances Black; fourth, Mrs. P. C. 
Callahan; fifth, Mrs. Will P. Dabney; sixth, Mrs. W. F. Barry; seventh and eighth, Mrs. C. H. Crego; ninth, 
Mrs. J. B. Murphy, who will fill the chair during 1916-1917. 

In the third year, the Club became departmental, with membership unlimited, enrolling more than a 
hundred members. Annually, work has been active under the departments of literature, art, history, chil¬ 
dren’s story hour, housekeepers, civics, health, humanitarian, and the Club has aided every movement in the 
city which has been for the bettering of conditions. 

Projected visions of better things for Jackson abide with the Club, and the ambition to have a Wom¬ 
an’s Clubhouse has been a strong undercurrent of action for several years. 



Ray Greener Gattman 


a tribute to tfjc Orestes 

“Woman’s Work in Tennessee” would be incomplete did its pages not contain a word of tribute to the 
press, for fortunate, indeed, has the Tennessee Federation counted itself in that it enjoys the hearty support 
and the active interest of a large majority of the daily and weekly newspapers of the state. 

The value of the publicity given the Federation in recent years can not be estimated in dollars. It could 
not be purchased by any organization. It has come through an endorsement of many of the plans adopted by 
the Federation for the betterment of its members and for the advancement of communities, towns and cities in 
which its clubs had their homes. Cordial support has been given legislative measures advocated by the Fed¬ 
eration. Hearty co-operation has been urged by newspapers in adoption of such plans, for the welfare of all, 
as w 7 ould mean municipal or community Christmas trees, rest rooms in county seat tow'ns, town and city 
improvement plans, public libraries, etc. 

The success of any organization is due, to a great extent, to acquainting the public with its objects and 
purposes. How 7 else can the public be informed than through the press? 

No department of the Federation does a more important work than that of which Miss Libbie Luttrell 
Morrow, of Nashville, is chairman. She is officially known as press correspondent, and it is through her work 
that many club women of the state are kept in touch with what is going on in the club world, and along 
what lines the efforts of this organized body of club women are being directed. This department w 7 as created 
five years ago—in 1911, with Miss Morrow as its chairman. That she has rendered most excellent service the 
interest aroused in the work of the Federation with the press of the state attests. Miss Morrow 7 is a trained 
newspaper woman of years of experience. She is deeply interested in woman’s work along all lines, keeps in 
close touch w'ith every organization that is doing something worth while, and is always willing to give pub¬ 
licity and endorsement to every movement which has the approval and the support of the Federation. 


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<^£&olt Circle 


SSOLI CIRCLE is thirty-one years old, holding the distinction of being the oldest 
club in the south. Mrs. L. Crozier French called a meeting on Friday, November 
20th, 1885, for the purpose of organizing a woman’s club, the object of which 
should be “to stimulate intellectual and moral development, and to strengthen individual 
eflort by organization.” Those responding to the call were thirteen in number, who became 
the charter members of the club. The name, Ossoli Circle, suggested by Miss Mary Temple 
in honor of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was adopted December 7, 1885. The circle was a charter 
member ot the general federation, and issued the call for State Federation in May, 1896. 

Until 1913, traveling libraries were an important activity; they were discontinued when 
conditions arose which made it no longer advisable or necessary to keep them in circulation. 

In 1901 Ossoli Circle began her aid to the mountain school work which, since that 
time, has been her chief activity, outside her own city. 

Improvement of the laws of Tennessee regarding the legal status of women was accom¬ 
plished through the energetic and determined efforts of Mrs. L. Crozier French. 

The idea of establishing a State Vocational School for Girls originated in Ossoli Circle, 
and the successful fruition of the idea is due, in a large measure, to the labors of Mrs. 
George W. Denney. 

One of our members, Mrs. Charles A. Perkins, has recently been appointed a member 
of the city Board of Education. 

For nine years a children’s story telling class has been a successful and interesting 
feature of the club’s work; organized by Mrs. Charles T. Cates, Jr. 

The discipline of club life has been of inestimable benefit to the members individu¬ 
ally; one evidence of which is that we are learning to engage in discussion impersonally 
and to hold difference of opinion without rancor. 

IvnoxbUle^pceum anb&rt jHuSeum 

The Lyceum and Art Museum is the Woman’s 
Building of Knoxville. It was opened in 1908, and is 
the second oldest of such buildings in Tennessee. It 
has a three-fold reason for being, namely, a home 
for the clubs, a small art gallery and a collection of 
historical relics. The large auditorium is in con¬ 
stant demand for club meetings, lectures, concerts, 
art exhibits, banquets, and both club and private 
dances. The Lyceum and Art Museum is a monu¬ 
ment to the interest and perseverance of the women 
who organized and control its management. 

The following ladies are members of the present 
Board of Directors: Mesdames Geo. F. Mellen, Chas. 
T. Cates, W. A. Lowry, W. S. Nash, Geo. W. Denney, 
H. Mizner, C. A. Perkins, Inge Murphy, J. W. Sneed, 
\V. A. Moses, Louis Tillman, A. A. Yeager, C. F. 
Leonhardt, and Miss Kate White. 


Mrs. Mary Briscoe Baldwin was born in Houston, Chickasaw 7 
county, Mississippi, and married Dr. Geo. F. Mellen in 1885. She is an 
honor graduate of Hunter College, New York City, and studied in Leip- 
sic and Paris, and uses her power given by such finished education, 
for the general cultural welfare. She is active in club work and moun¬ 
tain work. She, it was, who proposed plan to have a home for Women’s 
Clubs in Knoxville, organized the board, served as first president, and 
has held office ever since its origin, in 1896. She is active in United 
Daughters of the Confederacy work and secured the erection of Con¬ 
federate monument on Fort Sanders. She was instrumental in rebuild¬ 
ing on the grounds of the exposition at Knoxville, the cabin in wdiich 
Admiral Farragut was born. This little cabin was used as United 
Daughters of the Confederacy and club headquarters during the last expo¬ 
sition. During the tw 7 o previous expositions it was used for the moun¬ 
tain work of which Mrs. Mellen was chairman. Mrs. Mellen is the power 
behind the throne of the Lyceum board. She has been for many years 
a member of Ossoli. The Lyceum building is the center of all club 
activity, art and social pleasures. The home address of Mrs. Mellen 
is Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Tennessee. 




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Cfjattanooga Roman’s Club, Cfjattanooga, QTennes&ee 


Chattanooga Woman’s Club was organized in the summer of 1894, at the home of 
Mrs. Sharon, with seven members. At first the club met in private homes, but as it 
increased in membership it sought larger quarters, and the Unitarian Church became the 
meeting place, later the Chattanooga Public Library, and still later the auditorium of the 
county courthouse. The Club federated with the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in 
1894, very soon after its organization, and with the Tennessee Federation of Women’s Clubs 
in 1896. It became a chartered organization April 19th, 1909. 

When this little band of aspiring women organized and banded together for the study of 
such subjects as would improve and build up the intellectual standard of the Club, they 
faintly hoped, yet dared not feel assured, of its success. Today there are two hundred and 
fifty members working together in harmony and loyalty for the promotion of every good 
object that can enhance the healthy growth of the Club in its various departments, which 
have seemed to be the legitimate outcome of the mother club’s existence. 

The Chattanooga Woman’s Club is a factor in the great organizations which today 
stand as a power for good in domestic, economic, civic and philanthropic problems. Among 
a few of the many activities of this Club are briefly the following: 

Under the leadership of one of its excellent presidents sprang the spirit of civic better¬ 
ment, and the need was apparent for the earnest care of the unfortunate ones, classed among 
the suffering “White Plague” victims. Untiring determination resulted in the beautiful 
“Pine Breeze Sanitarium,” where every care and medical attention is bestowed upon the unfor¬ 
tunate sufferers. Soon this fond child of the club out-grew its motherhood and with the first 
generous subscription to the building fund it passed into what is now the “Tuberculosis Sani¬ 
tarium Association.” 

The Civic department inaugurated the first municipal inspection of public bakeries, again, 
the wide-spread “City Clean Up” was successfully carried through. From this first under¬ 
taking toward a cleaner city the “Spring Clean Up” has become an annual festival. Help to 
the Mountain Settlement work of the Tennessee Federation, and to the schools are not least 
among the services she has rendered. 

Traveling libraries, literature distributed among the unfortunate inmates of our jails and 
prisons, contributions to public schools of pictures, help to the settlement schools in the city, 
aid to the Young Women’s Christian Association by sending to them magazines and current 
literature. 

This Club furnished a suite of rooms in the City Market-house where rural women can 
rest and refresh themselves. 

The treasury of the Club is always open to the needs of the “Travelers’ Aid” to protect 
the young girls lured from their country homes to seek employment in the city. The Free 
Kindergarten was an object of her care. 

The Club owns two, one thousand dollar, scholarships in the University of Chattanooga, 
offering this advantage to two young people each year, chosen by the Club. 

The Mother Club takes just pride in the work of her several departments, namely, 
parliamentary law, the drama, story tellers, civics and economics. These with music and 
literature, to be known as departments in our next club year’s work, makes the Chattanooga 
Woman’s Club a most complete departmental club. 

The legislation committee have co-operated with the State Federation in being instru¬ 
mental in the passage of two bills, passed by the legislature, changing the legal status of 
women. 

Each director of these departments can feel she has done a work which will reflect credit 
upon the life of the Club in the years to come. 

Among the pleasurable social features are to be mentioned the annual banquet where 
cheer, wit and wisdom reign supreme. President’s Day, and a social feature suggestive of 
the country under discussion as year’s study. 

The term of office is one year, officers may serve two terms but no longer, to same office. 

One of the early members of the Club bequeathed to us the sum of five hundred dollars, 
a piano and her library of books. The money became the nucleus of a fund for a Club Home, 
while the piano and books were placed in the Young Women’s Christian Association building. 

This chapter is a brief outline of what the Chattanooga Woman’s Club stands for. In 
these and other ways it has been a living contribution to social service, a privilege in which we 
all rejoice. 

MRS. H. B. CASE, Historian. 

MARY A. GILES HOWARD, President. 


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QTfje 0i b jHens: Home 

Memphis, Tenn. 



HE Home for aged men was founded in November, 1901, by Judge Latham, Col. Josiah 
Patterson, W. G. Thomas, Judge Young, Frank Anderson, Herbert Moore, Frank Zim¬ 
merman, J. J. Williams and R. F. Sloan, Secretary-Treasurer. The Home was given 
into the charge of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley. 


Later an old ante-bellum home with spacious grounds was purchased. It was at that 
time encumbered with a heavy mortgage, which has since been liquidated, besides which 
improvements have been made. A heating plant has displaced the stoves and modern plumb¬ 
ing has been installed. 


Admission to the Home is based upon no age limit, and the applicant has only to pay ten 
dollars a month. The average number of men in the Home is from fourteen to twenty. These 
are supposed to be old men of good moral character who have no relatives able to care for 
them, but, like every other body of people working for a worthy cause, the managers of the 
Home have been imposed upon at times. 

It is planned by such good women as Mesdames L. T. Manker, St. John Waddell, Julia 
Kimbrough, N. W. Speers, J. T. Fisher and others with the charitably inclined persons to 
make the Home one of comfort and peace for aged men who have no relatives. 

Mrs. J. T. Fisher is the president of the Board at the present time. 


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title g>torj> Hour for Hops anb (girls 

The Cossitt Library and the Nineteenth Century Club, through co-operation, have accom- 
p lshecl a most efficient story hour for the boys and girls of Memphis. 


From all the city’s haunts the children come 
And crowd the quiet room, alert and still, 
Their interest keyed, their very smiles and tears 
Swayed ever at the story-teller’s will. 

She stands before them with her face upraised 
Building anew the wonder dreams of old, 

At her command there grow to life again 
The faded legends which the centuries fold. 


And they who listen to her golden voice 
See mysteries and visions strange arise, 
Aladdin’s palace glitters in the sun, 

Rome burns again before their eyes. 

From history’s page or legendary lore 
The story-teller draws her varied theme. 

And straight there springs to life once more 
Some long dead fact, some poet’s golden dream. 


For Old and New and Past and Present lend 
A silver thread, a glowing jeweled bead 
To weave into the fabric of a tale 

That laughs with joy, or teaches some high creed.” 


-Sara Beaumont Kennedy. 


(^oobtopn institute 


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OODW\N INSTITUTE was founded by Mr. William A. Goodwyn, a former resident of Memphis, who 
gave practically his entire fortune, amounting to about $500,000.00, to endow it. 

greater portion of this endowment fund is invested in a modern office building, seven stories 

„ ’ on corner of Madison Avenue and Third Street, Memphis, Tennessee, called Goodwyn Insti¬ 

tute Building. 


The second and third stories of this building are devoted to an auditorium. The greater portion of the 
seventh floor is devoted to a library. 

According to Mr. Goodwyn s will, two educational agencies are conducted by Goodwyn Institute, namely: 
Courses of free public lectures and a free reference library. 

The funds for maintaining the lecture courses and the library are secured from the rental of offices and 
other rental spaces in Goodwyn Institute Building. 

Goodw> n Institute w r as dedicated on September 30th, 1907, and since that time its work has been unusu¬ 
ally successful. 


The present officers of Goodwyn Institute are the State of Tennessee, Trustee; J. M. Goodbar, John R. 
Pepper and \\ . J. Crawford, Commissioners; C. C. Ogilvie, Director; and Miss Marilla W. Freeman, Librarian. 


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porter Home anb Heatb (Orphan asplurn 

A brief history of the above institution. 

N February 12th, 1852, the Widows and Orphans Home was incorporated by the fol¬ 
lowing persons, viz: Lyttleton Henderson, John P. Caruthers, M. David, Sidney Smith, 
Dr. Condit, J. W. A. Pettit, and A. O. Harris. 

On the 21st day of February, 1855, Mrs. Sarah H. Leath made her first gift of nine 
acres of land to the Home. The following being named as trustees: J. E. Merriman, A. O. 
Harris, S. R. Brown, W. J. Smith, H. G. Dent, Lyttleton Henderson and S. W. Gibson. The 
Board of Trustees, active and energetic, lost no time, for on the 3rd of June, 1856, they moved 
the children then in their charge into the brick building adjoining this structure which they 
had planned and erected in the short space of sixteen months. 

By the will of Mrs. Sarah H. Leath, recorded January 11th, 1858, she made a further gift 
to the Institution of twenty acres of land, a total of twenty-nine acres. In honor of Mrs. 
Leath and in appreciation of these magnificent gifts, the largest and most valuable by any one 
individual for a charitable purpose in Shelby County at that time, the Trustees, by an act of 
the Legislature on March 19th, 1858, had the name of the Institution changed to the Leath 
Orphan Asylum. 

In the year 1875 the Odd Fellows started the building and completed same in 1876, which 
stands as a monument to the Odd Fellows of this city to this day. 

On March 16th, 1900, the Leath Orphan Asylum and the Children’s Home on Alabama 
Street were consolidated. The children from the Children’s Home were moved to the Leath 
Orphan Asylum on the 1st of April, 1900. 

On October 11th, 1904, the name of this Institution, by amended charter, was changed to 
the Porter Home and Leath Orphan Asylum. This change was made on account of the large 
bequest of Mrs. Rebecca Porter Bartlett. 


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jUtS. Jofjn Easton 

As Miss Theresa Meier, Mrs. John Gaston was one of the best known and popular girls in her set, it 
being almost an axiom that never was she known to speak ill of any one, nor to offend even the humblest 
acquaintance knowingly. Of a sunshiny nature, she believed in spreading the doctrine of optimism, even when 
a pupil, and later as an honor graduate of the Higbee School, as well as through her later life, although she 
has not been without sorrow, this has ever been her creed. After her marriage to Mr. Gaston, they traveled 
extensively, both at home and abroad, making new friends, yet ever retaining the old. Mrs. Gaston has 
always taken a very active interest in all well organized clubs, especially those for the uplift of women. 
She has been indeed a fairy godmother to many and that too, in a way that even her dearest friends little 
realize for display of any kind is extremely distasteful to her. As a member of the Nineteenth Century Club, 
she became greatly interested in the Mountain Schools, and in the girls of the cove country, and is now bending 
every energy to aid them. Honorary president of the Old Men’s Home, her interests here are very close to 
her heart, while her club interests are centered in the Sarah Law Chapter, LL D. C., having held the position 
of treasurer for over two years, and the same office for the Home for Incurables. Her religious affiliation has 
ever been with the Episcopal Church, holding membership in Calvary. Standing for all that uplifts woman¬ 
hood and as philanthropist, friend, or friendly visitor to some unfortunate, she is the same generous, kindly 
woman, whose life is indeed a blessing to any community. 


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Pollmg-jWtiSSer g>cf)ool of JtluSic 

Memphis, Term. 


3 N 1890 Misses Mary Lou Bolling and Nettie L. Musser, then just returned from several years’ study in 
Berlin, Germany, opened the first music studio in Memphis. Success attended their efforts from the 
beginning, and the work of their pupils in the piano department attracted wide attention for its decided 
thoroughness and superiority. In 1894 quarters were secured in the Randolph Building, and the depart¬ 
ments of voice training, singing, violin-playing and theory were added and placed under the charge of 
Mrs. S. T. Carnes and Mr. Robt. Just, respectively, which added a vast amount of enthusiasm and stability to 
the work in general. In 1896 Mr. Fordyce Hunter was selected to fill the vacancy in the Faculty caused by 
Miss Musser s retirement. In 1898 and 1899 Miss Jennie DeShazo and Miss Elizabeth Mosby took their places 
in the faculty, having made a remarkable record as the first and most brilliant students of the founders of 
the school. They have and are still occupying the same enviable places as upholders of the best in art. Later 
Prof. Jacob Bloom was brought on by the school from the Cincinnati Conservatory to take charge of the 
\iolin work, and for two years conducted a highly successful department. In 1903 a new studio home was 
opened in the Woman’s Building, where it still occupies spacious and elegantly furnished quarters. In 1908 
Miss Florence Goyer Taylor returned from the Northwestern University School of Music, became a member 
of the Faculty. In 1910 Miss Etta Hanson was added to the already strong culture. In 1914 Miss Susie 
DeShazo was welcomed as the concert pianist of the Faculty. The well-deserved and continued success of the 
institution is sufficient indication of the confidence the Memphis public places in the ability and seriousness 
of purpose of the Faculty. 



l^arb=Pelmont ikfjool 


Nashville. 


J 


’N work and in play the girls of Ward-Belmont 
are stimulated to their finest interest, enjoy¬ 
ment and achievement in all that leads to their 
physical, social, intellectual and moral develop¬ 
ment. Inspired by delightful surroundings and 
associations and encouraged by the kindly influence 
and close, personal instruction of master-minds, our 
young women enter with hearty enthusiasm into 
every activity of college life. 

In the class room or in the saddle, in the swim¬ 
ming pool or in the laboratory, at tennis and basket 
ball, or in the studio and domestic science, the noblest 
ideals of efficient, wholesome, practical and cultured 
womanhood are the common goal of Ward-Belmont 
students. 

The fifty or more instructors comprising the faculty, 
are selected for their culture, ability, experience and 
moral fitness from the leading American and Euro¬ 
pean Universities, Conservatories and Studios. The beautiful campus and buildings, representing an invest¬ 
ment of more than half a million dollars, afford every comfort, convenience and facility for the protection 
and training of body and mind. 

In Nashville, “The Athens of the South,” the center of Southern education and culture, favored by the 
peerless winter climate of the beautiful bluegrass region of Tennessee, young women from the best homes of 
the South, East and West meet in delightful and profitable association to enjoy the distinctive advantages of 
a thoroughly appointed institution of national prestige and patronage. 


Puforb College for goung domett 

Nashville, Tennessee. 

“A Limited, Select, Home College for the Higher Culture of Girls and Young Women.” 


v>^r%RS. E. G. BUFORD, founder, and President of this famous institution, in Clarksville, Tennessee, in 
/ill the handsome building erected for her by the appreciative citizens of that progressive city, just 
j ILl twenty-five years since. 

(Jr After ten years of remarkable success, Mrs. Buford determined to move to Nashville, to estab¬ 

lish a Standard A. B. College for Women, where another attractive Home was given her College, 
which, for fifteen years, has ranked the peer of any College for Women in the land—enjoying a national and 
international patronage, from five Nations and thirty-two States. 

In recognition of Mrs. Buford, personally and professionally, a number of representative business men 
of Nashville, have recently purchased a magnificent site of twelve acres in West Nashville, in touch with 
Vanderbilt and “George Peabody College,” and arranged most beautiful up-to-date accommodations, luxuri¬ 
ously furnished. 

In the comprehensive College Curriculum of Twelve Distinct Schools, has been embodied an Elementary 
School, consisting of Kindergarten, Primary, and Preparatory Departments, while the already noted Schools 
of Music, Art, and Expression, have been united in one great “Conservatory.” 

Retaining her excellent corps of cultured, Christian Educators, Mrs. Buford has enlarged and strength¬ 
ened her fine Faculty and offers every opportunity for comfort and culture, guaranteeing personal care and 
character-building in the making of a woman for womanly ends, bespeaking the continued support of her 
representative Patrons, Alumnae, and Students from Ocean to Ocean, from Lake to Gulf. 


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(Hartl^&amgap Hospital 

Gartly-Ramsay Hospital, out in the 
/I north-eastern section of the city, and 
one of the finest private institutions 
in the South, is situated at the corner 
of Jackson Avenue and McDavitt Place. 

In 1910, George Gartly, physician, and 
Robt. G. Ramsay, business manager, secured 
the old McDavitt homestead, which they con¬ 
verted into a home-like private hospital, 
equipped with every known comfort and 
convenience for the patients, and every mod¬ 
ern discovery for the high-class physicians 
and surgeons who, from the beginning, have 
endorsed and patronized this institution. 

The approach to the Gartly-Ramsay Hospital is like that to the average fine old Southern 
home. I he spacious front lawn, big trees and beautiful flowers and shrubs, suggest hospi¬ 
tality lather than hospitals. On entering one finds again the home reception hall, instead of 
the usual long corridor found in most institutions of this kind. 

The private office ot Dr. Gartly, the house physician, is finished in ivory, and the opera¬ 
tion room, also in white, is up to the minute in its surgical apparatus. 

. Twenty-four nurses in training are under the supervision of Miss H. Crawe, a native 
Canadian. 

In the Battle Creek treatment room, complete in every detail, patients may receive the 
identical treatment to he had in Battle Creek, Michigan, with the advantage that they need 
not be put to the expense and inconvenience of leaving home for a long stay, to be made well, 
mentally and physically. 

During the six years since the Gartly-Ramsay Hospital was established, thousands of 
patients have been cared for yearly, besides those who come to the Hospital daily for the 
baths and massage treatment. 

Demands upon the Hospital for more accommodations will, in the near future, be met. 



JlempfnS Jletfjobtsst Hospital 


institution which holds the greatest possibility of serving human need is the Christian Hospital. 

/I It relieves physical suffering and disability, often saving the very life, and also ministers most help- 
fullj" to the spiritual nature. It most aptly and beautifully exemplifies the ministry of Christ. 

The Memphis, North Arkansas and two Mississippi conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
South, have launched a movement for building a great Methodist Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., with a 
capacity of five hundred beds. It will be unexcelled in equipment and facilities, and will be administered with 
broadest catholicity of spirit, sufferers of every faith, or no faith, being equally welcomed and faithfully 
attended. 


The Methodist Hospital is not being built to make money, but to serve human need and forward the 
Kingdom of Christ. While it will operate an unsurpassed Pay Department, a liberal proportion of its beds 
will be devoted to Charity. Those needing its service will be welcome, with or without money. 

The managing board has secured a beautiful and commodious site in one of the best and most conven¬ 
ient residence sections of Memphis, thus assuring ample grounds and pleasant surroundings. 

The plant will be built in units, each to provide for one hundred or more beds. Construction of the first 
unit will begin in a few weeks. 

The invitation to co-operate in establishing this humanitarian and Christian benevolence is hereby 
extended to all who sympathize with those who suffer. The best people of the land, irrespective of church 
affiliation, are contributing to it. You are invited to join this royal company. 

Its dividends will not be in gross coin, but in the gratitude of restored lives and redeemed immortal 
souls, and the sweet consciousness of partnership in the heavenly Father’s purpose and work. 

The best charity is that which helps the unfortunate into condition to help himself, and to become the 
helper of others. 

Do you want a Memorial of yourself, or some one you love? Why build a useless and soon-forgotten 
one in the dismal, deserted cemetery? In this Methodist Hospital the name will be observed and appreciated 
for the service rendered, and it will be kept alive through the centuries. 


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jUrg. €. S>. Conner 

Marta Scott was born in Indiana, and after high school and normal school training, became a teacher 
in the public schools of that state. She came to Memphis the bride of E. S. Conser, and has been one of 
the busiest women of that city ever since. She has contributed to all the newspapers and other worth¬ 
while publications of Memphis, both prose and verse. She is a successful real estate dealei’, clearing, on 
one occasion fifteen hundred dollars in one day. She has held membership in the Beethoven, Memphis Press 
and Authors, Memphis Suffrage, Nineteenth Century, Parent-Teacher, and Shelby County Federated Clubs, in all 
hut one of which she has held office. She has recently started a movement for the planting of valuable trees 
in the parks, school yards and other public grounds, and as a result hundreds of finest pecan trees will soon 
be bearing all over Memphis. Mrs. Conser has attained an enviable reputation as a public speaker and her 
readings of her own poems please the most critical audience. 


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3n ffclemonam 


7tr\)t Qltnntz&tt Jf eberation of Women’s; Clubs; 




reberentlp paps; tribute to frienbs; tofjo bube 


gone before. Wt miss; tbem in our toork, in 
our meetings;, in our homes;. JUisss; too, tbeir 
kinblp, cljeerp toorbs; of encouragement that 
belpeb s;o much to turn tbe tibe in optimisitic 
channels, toben baps; toere bark anb Hope sieemeb 
far atoap. &f)tp babe s;olbeb tbe mpsiterp of tbe 
Vallep of Silence, anb tbe lanb that is; jusit 
beponb. Wt babe tooben a cbaplet of Jfflemorp’s 
glorious; immortelles;, anb place it tobap in our 
Hall of Jfame — a lobing tribute from tbe J)es;= 
terbapo offereb tbe QTomorrotos;, in all tbe pears; 
to come. 



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Jlrs. C. 3Toof 


Mrs. Mary Bates Toof, one of the beautiful characters among the distinguished women of this State, 
slipped quietly from Earth October 7, 1908. She came here from Fort Madison, Iowa, as a young bride in 1856. 
A member of the Southern Mothers during the war, she was, after its close, until her death, a leading spirit 
in many laudable movements of Memphis organizations to preserve the memory of some benefactor to the 
human race. Mainly through her efforts, the monument to Dorothea Spottswood Winston, the eldest daughter 
of Patrick Henry, was placed in Elmwood Cemetery by the Commodore Perry Chapter, D. A. R. For many 
years she served as regent of this chapter, and was Honorary Regent for life when she died. The bronze bust 
of Capt. J. Harvey Mathes, in Confederate Park is another evidence of her patriotic spirit. An active member 
of the L. C. M. A. of Pocahontas Circle, also of the J. Harvey Mathes Chapter, U. D. C., and officially con¬ 
nected with many other organizations, she made herself widely loved and admired. Memorial services, the 
most beautiful ever held in Memphis, took place November 4, 1908. Representatives of every organization of 
which she was a member paid some tribute of love, bearing witness to the fragrance of her influence, the per¬ 
fume of her sympathy, the inspiration of her noble deeds and her thoughtfulness and consideration for others. 

In remembrance of Mrs. Toof’s love for Indian traditions, the Indian legend was carried out at the close 
of the Memorial services. A barque canoe filled with white blossoms and caught to its moorings by a silver 
cord was set adrift down the great shining waters by the Pocahontas Circle, bearing an offering of peace to the 
Great Spirit. Later, o’er that lonely camping ground, the harvest moon looked down in pity on the desolate, 
darkened wigwam, and forest, hill and stream sent up their requiem to the autumn winds that whispered 
“She has gone.” 


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3?ennj> jftl. Jltgbee 

Jenny M. Higbee was born in Moorestown, New' Jersey, June 9th, 1839, of gentle ancestry on both sides. 
She was educated at the best seminaries of the time, one of them being that of Mary Lippincott, which had 
a nation-wide reputation. Always precocious, she began her career as a teacher at the age of sixteen, while 
continuing her own education under several distinguished college professors. At the close of the w r ar 
between the states, she came to Memphis to visit her brother. Dr. H. H. Higbee. The temperament of the 
southerners appealed to her, and she never returned to the New' Jersey home, except as a visitor. Begin¬ 
ning as a teacher in the newly established public schools of Memphis, she held the position as principal of the 
High school for ten years. Later, she became principal of the Presbyterian grammar and high school upon its 
organization in 1874, but resigned in 1879, to incorporate the Higbee School. For nearly forty years, this 
school stood for the best and highest in the development of young womanhood, not merely as a local fac¬ 
tor, but drawing into its boarding department, brilliant representatives from nearly every state in the 
Union. After Miss Higbee’s death in 1903, this reputation was maintained by her able assistants until 1915, 
when the school was discontinued. 

Pre-eminently, Miss Higbee was a w'omanly woman, peculiarly fitted for the training of prospective 
wives and mothers, but her strong personality was both energetic and progressive, and many of her 
old girls w r ho have traveled far afield in literature, art, science and the commercial world, gratefully acknowl¬ 
edge her influence. No man could be sterner upon occasion, than she, and no woman more tender. A 
consideration of animals shared with her passionate love of justice, and an old platform text of hers comes 
ringing down the years: “He prayeth best who loveth best, all things, both great and small.” Those who 
loved her, can hear it yet as she gave it. Had Jenny M. Higbee not become a teacher, the world of literature 
would have been richer; but having chosen, her life was too full to give more than a passing thought to the 
creative field. The few verses of hers, which are scattered here and there, treasured in old scrap-books, indi¬ 
cate fine poetic feeling and rare rhythmic appreciation. 

Having taken a stand for the higher education of woman, when the idea w r as too new to have obtained 
scarcely more than a foothold, it became the consuming theme of Miss Higbee’s life, and the debt which this 
vicinity owes to the efforts of this modest, unassuming woman, who never once in all those years, wavered 
in the courage of her convictions, can not be overestimated. In her last address to her Alumnae, only a few 
weeks before her death, she said: “Perhaps, as I am sometimes reminded, “It is time to be old, to take in 
sail,” but in the influence of a perennial fountain of youth, the pure and beautiful life of childhood and 
young girlhood, I ever renew' my strength and can find voice of a heart-song.” 


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Clara Contoap 


Horn in New Orleans, 18-14. Moved to Memphis, 1846. Died in Memphis, 1904. 

Miss Clara Conway was one of the best known educators in the South, and through the influence of her 
work and vivid personality is still a factor in the lives of hundreds of women who came in touch With her. 
For many years she was a prominent figure in the women’s clubs and literary circles of Memphis, where she 
conducted the noted Clara Conway Institute, a college preparatory school for girls. 

Her school held a unique place in the South from the time of its foundation during the dark days of the 
terrible yellow fever epidemic year of ’78, through its happy ’80’s, until the panic year of 1893, when its hand¬ 
some home on Poplar Avenue was practically closed. In equipment and methods, the school was years ahead 
of its time. It had a fine reference library, a splendidly equipped gymnasium, a laboratory with the neces¬ 
sary apparatus for experimental work in physics and chemistry, and a very complete studio. It was planned 
and directed by a mind that seemed to see in advance the demands that very modern educators would make 
for the proper preparation of girls for higher education. It was the first school in this section to secure the 
privilege of entering its pupils in the great Eastern Colleges on certificate. 

“Hitch your wagon to a star,” she quoted over and over again to her girls, urging on them the necessity 
of preparing to take part in the work of the world. And today many of the leaders in the movements for the 
intellectual, social and moral betterment of the community are the women who caught the fire of their inspira¬ 
tion from the flame of her ardent spirit. 

Because she was intolerant of mediocrity, and had no sympathy for the hard material standards of the 
world, she was called “a visionary” and “an idealist.” But her visions and ideals gave her teaching a value 
beyond measure, won for her the the friendship of famous artists, authors, scientists and musicians, and 
made her, not a Memphian only, but a citizen of the world. 


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jttarp Hilly Partner 

The gifted and beautiful daughter of the late John and Mrs. Mary Lilly, who, in the very flush of womanhood, 
gave up her life on earth January 3rd, 1915, far away from her loved Southland and her Tennessee home, 
where her devoted mother now mourns her loss. An artist of very superior merit, she never blended on 
canvas more perfectly beautiful colorings than those in the tone poem of her own young life. Duty was her 
watchword, and the Golden Rule her precept. She brought sunshine where the shadow's dw'elt, and kindly 
words, and kindlier deeds, to hearts bowed down. Honors came to her all unsought. She loved Art for Art’s 
sake, and under the spell of her brush the canvas became living reality. Studying under Edgar M. Ward, 
N. A., of New York, in his private class, she soon rose to heights seldom ever attained even by his pupils. 
In the hearts of her friends are treasured remembrances of her, and smiling down upon them from the w r alls 
of home, her pictures seem to whisper the consoling thought, “She is not dead! She is just away.” In 1904 
she became the bride of the late Dr. R. B. Gardner. And so it is best to think of one so loved in life, so 
beautiful even in Death! The betterment of girls less fortunate than herself—the helping hand extended in 
moments of need, the cheery' word when life for some seemed gray' indeed, and hope forever gone—these but 
tell in part her life work. They are the minors in the music that give heart cadence to the song. She has 
traveled away to the Far Land; earth will never know her more, but hearts there are today—hearts and lives, 
too, all the better because she lived, because of her w'ork, and best of all—because of her splendid woman¬ 
hood. A loss to Memphis in every sense of the word, her memory yet lives in her w'orks of Art, both in 
public buildings and private homes. 


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€bttfj pennett 

One of the most beautiful characters this cit 3 r has ever known was that of Edith Bennett Wright, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Everett T. Bennett, who died January 21, 1907. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, educated in 
Tennessee, Massachusetts and Virginia Institutes, her girlhood was beautiful, and her young matronhood 
equally as charming. In April, 1903, when little more than a school girl in years, she became the bride of 
William Norman Wright, and at her death left two little ones to mourn the loss of a beautiful, devoted 
young mother—Norman Bennett Wright, born April 11, 1904, and Edith May Wright, born January 6tli, 1907, 
whose coming caused the death of her ideal young mother. Mrs. VTight had traveled extensively and was a 
brilliant scholar, a splendid musician, and a writer who wrnuld have carried her name high on the Scroll Mark 
of Fame had she lived for even a little while longer. She was a devoted wife and mother, a loving loyal 
daughter and sister, and the light and life of her home. Loved and admired for her noble character—her ever 
cheerful word and kindly smile given the most humble as well as the most exalted—she is loved and hon¬ 
ored in the memory of her legion of friends, but best and most of all in her girlhood home. A consistent mem¬ 
ber of Calvary Episcopal Church, she lived her creed and in the living won from the Master the words, “Well 
Done.” 


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JHrs. W. H- Horton 



Mrs. W. H. Horton was a daughter of Judge Phineas T. and 
Minerva Rivers Scruggs. Was born October 25th, 1839. She 
was educated at Franklin College, Holly Springs, Miss. Gradu¬ 
ating in 1854 with the honors of her class. In 1858 the family 
moved to Memphis, where she married William H. Horton, a 
successful cotton merchant, in 1860. Soon the Civil War with 
its sorrows and trials engulfed them leaving her husband’s 
fortune shattered and his health wrecked from wounds received 
in the defense of his principles. Then the young wife, with 
fine courage and a splendid vision of service both to her fam¬ 
ily and to her community, entered upon her successful career 
as teacher in the public schools. The brilliant promise of her 
girlhood was amply fulfilled in the solid accomplishments of 
her maturity. She was the first woman in Tennessee to hold 
the position of superintendent of education. This in itself is 
a notable tribute to the womanly qualities, virile mentality 
and administrative ability, which conspired to make her a 
dominant figure in educational affairs. During the two terms 
which she served as superintendent of education in Shelby 
County, her dauntless enthusiasm infused new life into offi¬ 
cials, patrons and teachers, and overcame many of the diffi¬ 
culties which confronted her, the pioneer in a new educational 
era. To Mrs. Horton, Shelby County owes grateful acknowl¬ 
edgment of her sound judgment and far-reaching vision in 
laying the foundation upon which the present model system rests. She retired from public office in 1887, after 
which she conducted a private school. Later she lived in Somerville, Tennessee, where her useful career ended 
in April, 1913. The keynote of Mrs. Horton’s life was absolute integrity of thought and action, combined with 
this honesty was a warm intelligent sympathy which invites the confidence of her associates, both young and 
old; unfailing good humor, buoyancy of spirit which enabled her to triumph over circumstances which other¬ 
wise must have crushed her. She 


“Never doubted clouds would break; 

Never dreamed though right were thwarted, wrong 
would triumph, 

Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better. 
Sleep to wake.” 

Written by her life-long friend, Mrs. Rosa A. Martin. 


Upbta Hanbon Jfloffat 

LYDIA LANDON MOFFAT, born in Ontario, Canada, July 4th, 1829, died at Monteagle, Tennessee, Sep¬ 
tember 18th, 1901. Wife of John Moffat, who served hi.- State as Commissioner of Emigration in the ’70’s and 
the Temperance cause all his life. 

Lydia Moffat was one of the first to recognize the need for missionary work in the Tennessee moun¬ 
tains. For years before the clubs took up this work, gave of her time, love and substance to her neighbors. 
Until death called her, she gathered around her each Sunday the children between the ages of three and 
seventy, and taught and inspired them. 

She was organizer and leader of a missionary society that from its slender resources provided clothing 
and books to enable children to avail themselves of the slender school resources of the mountain districts. 
She was ever ready to share with those less fortunate the benefit of her wider opportunities. 


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JUrsi. C. jUpersi 

Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a child’s education should 
begin a hundred years before it is born—Minnie Walter Myers’ 
forefathers for generations had been brilliant lawyers, men of 
large interests and philanthropies. She was born at Holly 
Springs, Mississippi, in 1852, into a home of culture and gen¬ 
erous hospitalities. After a childhood spent in such an atmos¬ 
phere and a girlhood to which every educational advantage 
was given, she was married in 1873 to Henry C. Myers, who 
became Secretary of State of Mississippi. At the expiration 
of eight years, he retix-ed from political life, and they moved 
to Memphis. Club life w r as only dreamt of at this time, but 
soon afterwards this dream became i-ealized in the establish¬ 
ment of the Nineteenth Century Club. She was one of the 
first members elected and gave the second paper. Realizing 
what breadth of vision and character women w r ould obtain by 
just such association, she became an ardent advocate for 
Women’s Clubs. In 1901 she organized the Housekeepers’ 
Club. Through this club the first teacher of Domestic Science 
was brought to Memphis and Domestic Science was introduced 
into the public school curriculum; public play schools were 
established, attention was given to the planting of trees and 
prizes awarded for the most attractive gax-dens. In fact, every¬ 
thing that tended towards the benefiting of homes and the 
perfecting of domestic conditions was encouraged. This club 
was used as a model by many clubs throughout the country. 
Besides her civic work she edited for several years “A Club 
Woman’s Page” in the News Scimitar. Her description of 
Cuban life published in a series of letters to the Times Demo¬ 
crat w r as graphic and delightful. Her chief literary effort, 
however, was a book, “Romance and Realism of the Gulf 
Coast,” a collection of charming legends of the South. 


€. ®. UTobep 

Mrs. Edward Taft Tobey was a native Memphian, and the 
world in which she moved is poorer today because of her 
untimely death. 

Born of a noble father, she inherited from him in a rare 
degree nobility of character. Generous to a fault she gave 
freely without considering her own needs. Strong in pur¬ 
pose, an indefatigable w'orker and so exalted in her ambition 
that however brilliant an achievement, her reach always ex¬ 
ceeded her grasp. 

With these qualities she combined gentleness and the sweet 
impetuosity of a little child. She was always an idealist, and 
to her life never became commonplace. 

As a teacher of music, she ranked at the top and w r as most 
successful in her chosen profession. 

Mrs. Tobey was a pupil of Wm. H. Sherwood, under whom 
she held the position of first assistant in the School of Music 
at Chautauqua, New York, for twenty-five years. 

Mrs. Tobey died May 7th, 1914. 

Her lifetime friend, 

MRS. BENJAMIN F. TURNER. 



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^atfjerme Harfetn Htgfjtburne 

With Eugene Field we can say r , “Some where, some time, some place,” we have been told that what now 
seems hardest, we’ll know has been best, and the sting will be gone from the pain. It is at least a beautiful 
thought, and it helps in that way if it does no more. But well we know that there are some griefs that all 
the long years through do not lose their sting—and one of these comes to us when the Grim Reaper takes our 
mother away. Nothing on earth makes up for that loss—nor makes the days less long, nor the nights less 
lonely. Life, the loved old every-day life that we knew with her, is never the same again, for old ties once 
broken know no ending. In all the years to come we can never go back to childhood hours when she could 
ease every pain—never go back, for old homes, like old roses, when shattered, are gone forever. The only 
thing left us is to preserve her loving memory, as we do the petals of precious roses—and it is in this loving 
sense that we pay tribute to one of the most gracious women in all the Garden of Life—to Katherine Larkin 
Lightburne. 

Reared in a home of wealth and refinement, and an honor graduate of St. Agnes, by birth, education, and 
wonderful talent, she was eminently fitted to take her position as a young matron in the front ranks of the 
social world of the Bluff City. As wife and mother, she was devoted to her family and her home, and active 
in church and social work, at the same time never neglecting her duties as a member of the Nineteenth Cen¬ 
tury Club, being specially interested in its literary department. 

Her sudden death was a shock, not only to her friends, but to the community, and a lasting shadow 7 over 
the lives of her children. 

Altruistic almost to a fault, she was ever ready 7 for the kindly word and deed, for aid to the unfortunate, 
with whom, in her broad charity, she came in contact. 


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iflar v HomSe Baxter I\rauss 

(Wife of Dr. Wm. Krauss.) 

Excerpt from an Obituary written by Mrs. Ida Clyde Clarke. 


Mrs. Krauss was the last one of her immediate family, every member of which contributed in a striking 
way to the social and public life of the city and state. She was the only daughter of Judge and Mrs. Nathaniel 
Baxter, and her three brothers. Judge Edward Baxter, Nathaniel Baxter and Jere Baxter, were also eminent Ten¬ 
nesseeans, whose names will always be linked with the history of the state. Her mother was Miss Mary Louise 
Jones, of Marshall County, and on this side also she was connected with the state’s most prominent families. 

She inherited to a marked degree the brilliant intellect, strong personality and charm of manner that 
distinguished the other members of her family, and she was a delightful and a much-sought-after member of 
any company in which she was thrown. As a young lady she became deeply interested in the work of the 
Ladies’ Hermitage Association, of which her mother was one of the founders, and her interest in this organi¬ 
zation and all that pertained to the conservation of the state’s historic holdings, always commended her cordial 
interest and her active support. Having been reared in an atmosphere of culture and patriotism, it was no 
wonder that her interest centered in all historic and patriotic organizations. She was a member of the Colonial 
Dames, and during the past year she had been appointed by Governor Hooper a Tennessee member of the 
Panama Exposition Commission. 

She was an accomplished linguist, and she she had marked literary ability. Her contributions to the 
press, to Harper’s Weekly, and other leading periodicals were read with eager interest, for she seemed to 
have shared with her distinguished brothers in inheriting a fine command of language and a facility and 
charm of expression that gave to whatever she wrote real literary value. 

She was a clear thinker, a sound reasoner and was absolutely fearless in her convictions. She thought 
things out for herself, adopting no ready-made opinions, and having made up her mind that a thing was 
right, she was ever ready and willing to stand by that conviction, no matter whether her friends agreed with 
her or not, though difference in opinion never altered in the slightest degree her friendship. 

A very peculiar sadness attaches to the death of this lovely woman because of her happy home life and 
her deep interest in and devotion to her new and beautiful home, with which her husband had presented her 
only a year ago. Her whole interest was centered in this home, and her greatest joy was in having her friends 
come and share its comforts and beauties with her and Dr. Wm. Krauss, to whom she was married December 
24th, 1912. 



iflrsi. 50S. a. JJebtte 

Kate Elizabeth Garvey was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and 
when quite young, went w ith her parents to New Orleans, La. At 
the age of fourteen she was a teacher from sheer love of the work. 
While yet a very young girl, she met and married Mr. Joseph A. 
Nevils and returned to Memphis, where she took up her life work* 
It was then that she established the first free school in the 
Bluff City, in the northern section of Memphis, known as 
Chelsea, and by a strange coincidence, the closing days of her 
busy life were spent as Assistant Principal in Pope School of 
Chelsea. Aside from her interest in educational lines, she was 
an active member of the Nineteenth Century Club, a consist¬ 
ent member of the Presbyterian Church, and by right of herit¬ 
age, as well as because of her love for the Old Guard in Gray, 
she was a loyal member of Sarah Law Chapter, U. D. C. She 
is survived by her husband and daughter. Miss Julia K. Nevils, 
who is a well known teacher in the Memphis City Schools. 
Mrs. Nevils has a place of honor in the history of Memphis 
and also in the hearts of those who know and loved her in 
life. Her beautiful character will ever grow in the example 
for good handed down by those who felt and followed her 
influence. 


If any little song of hers 

Could make one heart the lighter. 
If any cheery word of hers 

Could make one life the brighter. 
She sweetly spoke that little word 
And sent its echoes ringing 
Into some lonely little life 
She took her bit of singing. 


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Easton $arfe 

OMAN’S Work In Tennessee” would most certainly be incom- 
J t j plete in historical data, if no mention were to be made of this 
wonderful little park—the only tract of ground but one in the 
entire country that has been given by an individual for the use 
of the public—and the only one in existence that is adjacent to 
—in fact one might say almost a part of, the handsome grounds of the 
old homestead—the place where the late John Gaston, the donor, lived 
and died. The place, too, from whose gates no unfortunate was ever 
turned away empty handed. This little park has, according to medical 
statistics, regarding the mortality of little children in that neighborhood, 
done more to save lives than any other one thing in this part of the 
country. Not far from the palatial home, the railroads crept in—far 
enough away so as not to in any way encroach upon the beauty and the 
quietude of the place, and yet near enough to cause the little homes to 
spring up—homes in which little children were many and dollars were few. 
In the terrific heat of summer, as w'ell as in the additional heat from the 
great engine fires, many a little urchin lay sick and suffering. Great¬ 
hearted John Gaston, all unknown, had watched this condition, and had 
seen more than one little white pine coffin taken aw'ay—and knew that 
in that little home a mother’s heart w r as broken. There is in Memphis at 
this writing, a leading physician w'ho knows that John Gaston came to 
him in the tw'ilight of one summer’s day, and asked him if these little folk had a park—a beautiful park 
where they could be brought in the early morn, and kept till the cool of the night, and all night, if necessary, 
would it help to lessen the sickness, the trouble and the death to be found in the little homes to the south of 
his grounds. Being assured that it would, Mr. Gaston w’ent home, made out the necessary papers, and Gas¬ 
ton Park became a reality. Day in and day out the mothers bless him, his name is on their lips more often 
than even the name of their little ones, and when, a few years later, death claimed him, there w'as indeed 
sorrow and mourning in these homes, for they knew' that their friend had gone. But even in the after years— 
the years when he w r as not—provision had been made for them, and the Park is still theirs to take care of, 
to love and to enjoy. The city has been especially interested in it, and everything that could be done has 
been done from the standpoint of a playground as well as a park. 

Gaston Park is most certainly a setting for Women’s Work, for mothers bring their children there to 
play, and their own sewing, and books, and the old folks bring their knitting, and their patch work, and 
under the shade, and by the side of the pretty floral banks beside the go-carts and pallets of their grand¬ 
children, live again in the days of their own youth. 

When Mr. Gaston came to Memphis, he took into his heart a great love for his adopted city, and never 
was man more beloved. Successful in every measure he undertook, he was always generous, genial, kindly 
John Gaston, with a smile, a welcome, and an extended hand for all who came his way. A friend to the 
orphans, he was also ever a friend to those who seemed to be the objects of an unkindly fate. His life w r as 
so splendidly lived that no matter how' great was his success, there was none but w'ished him well. Such a 
monument can never be told in marble or stone, but lives forever in the hearts of the people whose home was 
his as well. Mr. Gaston died in March, 1912, but his name will be perpetuated as long as time lasts. 



Mr. John Gaston. 



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Agricultural anb Snbustrial Section 



)T has been our purpose to publish only conserva¬ 
tive write-ups and illustrations of Agricultural and 
Industrial Institutions which are of special civic 
and State pride to the Tennessee Federation of 
Women’s Clubs. To that end we have worked, and 
with pardonable pride herewith present an Indus¬ 
trial and Agricultural Section, which bespeaks the 
Friends of the Federation and in return will receive the endorse¬ 
ment of this splendid body of women. 

Tennessee is especially prosperous regarding its commercial 
world. It is a well-known fact that this State felt far less keenly 
the temporary stringency of the times than any other State within 
the confines of the Cotton Belt. 

It is a matter of statistics that we have a larger number of 
women at the helm of every department in Tennessee than any 
other State in the Union. In every walk of life woman’s power is 
felt, and her influence sought in every campaign: political, indus¬ 
trial, commercial or otherwise. The 6,000 women of the Federation 
naturally endorse and will speak for the firms, who by co-operation 
and representation, in the Federation edition have aided them to 
make possible a history of the work of Tennessee Women. 

Over one hundred clubs compose the Federation, reaching from 
county to county, covering all of the ninety-six confines of the State, 
conserving the beauty, grace and culture of the homes—expanding 
in growth, faithful to duties, broadening in spirit, and elevating in 
purpose—this in a nutshell is the status and horoscope of the Ten¬ 
nessee Federation of Women’s Clubs. 

To make their work a record of history, as a matter of duty to 
the State and to future generations, the Federation asked the co¬ 
operation of its commercial friends, and loyally thank the firms 
herein represented. 

As a purchasing power, Woman’s influence is an acknowledged 
factor in the world of commerce, and it will unfalteringly be used 
in the support of those firms who have indorsed their edition by 
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ANNE BRINKLEY HOME 
South Second and Pontotoc Avenue 


ELLA OLIVER REFUGE 
903 \\ alker Avenue 

Women’s; anti J9oung Women’s; 
Cijrisittan Ussoctatton 

Jflempfits 

§ 5 >\)tlbt> Countp, Cenne&see 

FIRST ORGANIZED EFFORT MADE BY WOMEN FOR WOMEN 

IN MEMPHIS 

ORGANIZED 1873 INCORPORATED 18S3 

Have now in active operation three branches of work 
ELLA OLIVER REFUGE 

REFORMATORY FOR YOUNG GIRLS 

ANNE BRINKLEY HOME 

YOUNG WOMAN’S BOARDING HOME 

and TRAVELING BUSINESS WOMAN’S HOTEL 

TRAVELERS’ AID BRANCH ORGANIZED 1906 
Keep three matrons at the Union and Central Stations day and night work 


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The Peabody 
Soda Room 

T HAT popular meeting place of the 
most prominent women, not only of 
Memphis, but of the entire State of Ten¬ 
nessee, the Peabody Soda Room, was 
thrown open to the public on October 
1st, 1915, with Mrs. Hettie Husten Gay, 
formerly of Chicago, as official hostess 
and general business manager. Mrs. 
Gay brought to the new enterprise the 
strength of the clear minded business 
woman, coupled with the culture of the 
college bred woman, being an honor 
graduate of Madame Nold’s College, of 
Louisville, Kentucky. 

The Peabody Hotel was remodeled in 1908, since which time, it has been a noted hostelry of 
this State, extending its hospitality to many famous visitors—the “Bar” receiving its full share of 
patrons. But now, since the ignominious defeat of King Alcohol, a new order prevails, and what 
was once the Hotel Bar, has been transformed into the Soda Boom, where the men may go with 
their wives and daughters to take luncheon amidst the most refined and aesthetic surroundings. 
The expensive red tiled floor, the Circassian walnut woodwork, the white glass tables, combined 
with the softening touch of ferns and potted plants placed artistically about two fountains com¬ 
plete a charming setting for the many groups of women who are entertained daily in the “Soda 
Boom.” 

The guests of the Soda Boom are served by white-clad waitresses, under the supervision of 
Mrs. Gay, who ever takes a personal interest in the conduct and welfare of her employees. And 
there is no greater evidence of that growing sisterhood of women than that shown daily in the 
Soda Room by the appreciation of the women of w’ealth for the women who serve them. 



A CITY’S SOCIAL LIFE 

Is beautifully dignified through 
the use of correct engraving,— 
call : ng cards, carefully phrased 
invitations, technically well 
executed on the best stocks. 
Then there’s good writing 
paper,— a sine qua non 



S. C. TOOF & COMPANY 

M EMPHIS 

{Fifty years of achievement in branches 
of the Arts Graphic) 


The 

Flower Shop 

The Flower Shop was established November 
17th, 1910, and is owmed and managed by two 
sisters, Mrs. M. E. Irby and Miss Kate L. Harris, 
both truly Southern women. Since the Flower 
Shop opened its doors, they have enjoyed a 
most successful business, and made for them¬ 
selves a host of friends and customers. The 
success of the Flower Shop has been attained 
by the untiring efforts of the tw'o owners, who 
have endeavored to give the best to their cus¬ 
tomers—a universal courtesy has been extend¬ 
ed to all. The policy of the Flower Shop has 
been to carry only the freshest of flow'ers and 
upon that one point a substantial business has 
been founded. 

The Flower Shop has eight employees, and 
five of that number are women. Each depart¬ 
ment—decorating, designing and making of 
bouquets is under the management of a woman. 
The giving of estimates, and the decorating 
itself is done by Mrs. M. E. Irby, who takes a 
special course each year in New York and Chi- 
c: go in the art of decorating. 


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^oman anb Eitcften 

By Bettie Lyle Wilson. 

An article which will interest women who are awake to the advantages offered by modern science in the proper 

equipment of their kitchen. 

Clipped from the Southern Woman’s Magazine and presented with the compliments of the Nashville Rail¬ 
way and Light Co., Chattanooga Railway and Light Co., Tennessee Power Co. 


3 SOMETIMES think, in these wonderful new times of ours, that a woman is just the 
least bit shiftless and indifferent who fails to take her full share of the advantages 
offered by modern science and invention for the lightening of her labor. It has gone 
out of fashion to be busy and tired all the time. We can now share some of the pleas¬ 
ures that our young people take, realizing at last that the sweetness and light-heartedness of 
life are as truly ours as are its duties. 

The gas stove and the coal oil stove, with all their helpful company of easily handled 
cooking vessels and convenient kitchen contrivances, have simplified the matter of meal-get- 
ting in a most comfortable way. And now, within the last few years, electricity, with its 
unfailing cleanliness and its exactness of results, is becoming the final and the ideal bearer of 
our household burdens. A fascinating array of electric cooking contrivances has already 
been perfected and are in use in thousands of kitchens all over the country. 

Among the simpler of these appliances is the electric toaster which is brought to the 
table and serves its hot toast with but a moment’s warming, and the more elaborate grill, on 
which you may prepare an entire breakfast or lunch without once rising from your seat. 

The electric waffle iron cooks the waffles to a tempting evenness and does it on both 
sides at once so that the bother of turning them over and waiting for the other side to brown 
is entirely done away with. 

There is an electric oven, also, that follows the plan of the fireless cooker. You put on 
the current until the heat registers just the exact degree necessary for the thing you are going 
to bake, then cut it off and leave it until the baking is done. An ordinary ham or roast, put 
in this oven in the early evening, will be baked overnight in the juiciest and most savory 
way, by this method of stored heat. 

It was with a coffee percolator that I made my first experiments with electric cooking. I 
was a little bit old-fashioned and overly-conservative in the beginning and insisted that I 
had no use for such contrivances, that things were already convenient enough. But after 
I had tried the new percolator a few times, I found myself taking it about the house with me 
in a most comfortable and friendly way. Coffee for breakfast could be made right on the 
table and served there without a step out of the way. Then there was the light luncheon 
served now and then in the living room and sometimes the afternoon cup of coffee made just 
where I sat, with the very least trouble imaginable. 

Recently, after having gradually become better and better acquainted with the conven¬ 
ience and the charming cleanliness of electric cooking, I tried baking one of my favorite cakes 
on an electric ovenette and found it entirely successful. 

There are many other electric inventions for the housekeeper that I have also tried and 
have found commendable, not only because they are convenient, labor-saving and always 
ready for use, but because they are reasonable in price. There is a little cooking set, for 
instance, that is invaluable for the sick room or the nursery or for the kitchen of the light 
housekeeper. This consists originally of an iron, which, in its primary purpose, is just that 
and nothing more. But with it there is a little stand upon which the iron may be inverted, 
and two little covered cooking vessels—and there you have a cooking stove in miniature and 
always ready for use, and one which, once owned, is no more willingly given up than the 
smoothing iron that was the foundation of it. 

There are electric chafing dishes, too, equally as fascinating for Bohemian and pictur¬ 
esque cooking parties of the old-fashioned kind, and there are tiny disk stoves for the sick 
room, the nursery, or for traveling, and stoves with larger disks, one, two or three of them, 
for every-day kitchen work. 

Going beyond the kitchen, electricity is working winders in the way of household com¬ 
forts of every sort; dish washers, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, warming pads for aches 
and pains, curling irons and vibrators for your toilet table, toy stoves with no danger of fire 
for our juvenile cooks, heaters for chilly rooms in winter and fans that rob the hottest sum¬ 
mer days of half their discomfort, all of these and many more are among the gifts that mod¬ 
ern science is offering us. 

Electricity has done great and marvelous things for the wdde world’s advancement. It 
now turns its energy to the help of the home maker and is setting a standard of cleanliness, 
comfort and efficiency which reflects itself in countless ways. 


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Compliments of 

The Mississippi Delta Planting Co. 
The Empire Plantation Co. 
The Delta Farms Co. 

Office, Bank of Commerce & Trust Building 

Memphis, Tenn. 


Saunders-Blackburn Grocery Co. 

Incorporated 

Wholesale 

W holesale Grocery Business on a Cash Basis 
Temporary Office, 26 South Front Street 

Memphis, Tenn. 


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Hbtoatn’g 

Ptjou Cremes 

and BIJOU FACE POWDER 

MADE IN MEMPHIS 

By L. S. Swain, 771 Polk Avenue 

Not Better than the Best but Better than the Rest” 

TRADE 




Reg. U. S. Pat. Office 

MARK 

A boon to women, and a friend to all of mankind, 
Swain’s Bijou preparations are now leading toilet arti¬ 
cles in the South. While their sales have been won¬ 
derful, greater results are coming, for, unlike other 
manufacturers, the Bijou Creme people have held back 
from new territory owing to an incomplete plant. 
Now they are ready and, judging from past results, 
a splendid future is predicted. Their creme has been 
the subject of deep thought and study. It is analyti¬ 
cally pure—harmless and at the same time beneficial 
to the tenderest skin. It is greaseless—removes sun¬ 
burn over night, does away with any eruptions due to 
heat, etc., and cleanses as well as purifies, leaving the 
skin like satin. Their powder, too, is the very best to 
be had. Both should find a corner in the traveling bag 
of every member of the Tennessee Federation and a 
place on the toilet table in the home. Once tried, 
always used. 

PRICES, 25c and 50c. 

For sale by drug stores or sent direct by mail post 
paid. Send 2c stamp for liberal samples. Try them. 
Reliable agents wanted everywhere. 


"Ttijou" 

(be-zhoo) 

MEANS 

JEWEL 


Meet me at 

Lanier’s 

Merry-Garden 
Ball Room 

on 

Monday, Wednesday 
and Saturday Nights 

Open to the Public 

Always Enjoyable 


Orpheum 

The Best of Vaudeville 

Memphis’ 

Leading 

Theatre 

Matinees 2:30 Nights 8:30 

Prices 75c, 50c, 25c, 10c 


LaCreole 
Hair Dressing 

There is not a reason why any one should 
look prematurely old and gray, for in this 
day of progress, aside from all other reasons, 
women w’ho are compelled to mingle in the 
business world—or in other words—compelled 
to make their own livelihood, if not the live¬ 
lihood of others, are forced by circumstances 
conducive to success to look as w T ell as possible, 
and prematurely gray hair is certainly not a 
business asset. The best friend these women 
have is La Creole Hair Dressing, not a dye, 
but just what its name implies—a Dressing. 
Not only harmless, but extremely beneficial to 
the hair; once used it is ever after to be had 
among the toilet articles of the well groomed 
woman. Mail orders given prompt attention. 

Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co. 

Memphis, Tennessee 


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401 Public Square 506-508 Church Street 

WARNER’S 

Nashville, Tennessee 

Prescriptions yATYTT/^Q Toilet Articles 
Sundries Sodas and Cigars 

True to an underlying principle of doing things right as public seivants, has made the name of Warner’s 
a synonym for all that is good in drugs and kindred lines. This high standard is carefully guarded and 
will be maintained for all time. 


The South’s Great 

Will supply you quickly with ANY Book you want at the LOWEST possible price. 
We carry a full line of Stationery, Fountain Pens, Fiction, Bibles, Post Cards, Gift Books. 
WRITE US FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICES 

Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South 


NASHVILLE, TENN. 


RICHMOND, VA. 
ORDER FROM NEAREST HOUSE 


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WALTER W. MILLER, Pres’t and Manager 



American F rench 


Otto Hylen Co. 

Dry Cleaning Co. 


INCORPORATED 


Interior 

Cleaners and Dyers 


Decorators 

Mural Decorations,House Painting 

736-738-740-742 South Cooper St. 

(Cor. Central Ave.) 


Wall Paper 

517 Union Street 

Cumberland Phone 996-997 Hemlock 
Memphis Phone 6120 

Memphis, Tennessee 


Nashville, Tenn. 


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Send Everything 
That Needs Cleaning 


Frankenstein 

to 


& Bernatsky 

The French Method Co. 



Wallace 


High Class Fashionable 

Cleansers & Dyers 



General Offices and Works 


Ladies’ Tailors and 

931 to 937 Kerr Ave. 
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Importers 

Walnut 68 



Quickest Service , Highest Grade 
of Work 


238 South Main Street 


Telephone Main 675 

Our Wagons Go Everywhere 





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Phones 201 



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Majestic and Empire 
Theatres 


Memphis 

Consolidated Gas and Electric 
Company 

Memphis, Term. 














Memphis Steam Laundry 

86 to 92 North Second Street 
Branch Office: 112 Union Avenue 


The Memphis 
Bread Co. 

Memphis, Tenn. 

Largest Bakers of Food 
Products in the South 

Have done more to emancipate 
the housewife from the kitchen 
worries and conserve their time 
for better things than any one 
other institution. 

Utilize ButternutandBusterBrown 
Bread and Aunt Mary’s Cakes in 
your family—“they’re worth it.” 
Six varieties, triple wrapped, in 
cartons. 


Drink 

Pepsi-Cola 

“The Drink that’s Different” 

Pepsi-Cola is the original 
Pure Food Beverage. 
Drink it yourself and let 
the children drink it. We 
heartily recommend 
Pepsi-Colato all thefamily 

The Pepsi-Cola Co. 

Memphis, Tenn. 


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Blackwood Tire 



Company 

The Electric Process 


Highest Class Tires and 

The Sure Health and 

Sanitary Way 


Accessories 

Model Laundry 


Service That Satisfies 

D. D. CANFIELD, Manager 



Nashville, Tennessee 


912-14-16 Broadway 

Nashville, Tenn. 

Phones Main 107-108 




SAM A. BUCHANAN 



Buchanan 

Brothers 

Lumber 


Exclusive 
Marinello Shop 

Licensed Shop and 

Operators 

Dealers in 


Scientific Treatments 

Rubberoid and Slate Surface 


for the woman who cares 

Shingles 



Manufacturers of 


Marinello Preparations for Face, 

Poplar Sash, Doors and Blinds 


Hands and beet 

Rough and Dressed Lumber, Cedar 
Posts and Shingles 


A Strictly Sanitary Shop 

23d Avenue, N., and Cedar Street 


Mrs. Katheryn DeHart 

Phone Hemlock 339 


Nashville, Tennessee 

Nashville, Tennessee 


173 Eighth Ave. N. 


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1NTerpR|51 

Made of 
“ARMCO” Iron 


Exclusive 

Quality 


For over half a century this firm has been 
known for the exceptional high quality 
of its stoves and ranges for the proper 
preparation of well cooked food and the yet unequalled quality and variety of imported 
and domestic china and glassware for properly serving. 

They lead all others in the installation of special equipments for domestic science 
and culinary departments of women’s clubs. 


Phillips & Buttorff Mf’g Co. 

“South’s Pioneer Stove Makers” NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 


What do you think of a 
life insurance company 
that writes from 30 to 
40 per cent, of its new 
business each year upon 
lives of already policy 
holders? Why such a 
remarkable experience ? 
Policy holders are satis¬ 
fied. What company can 
boast of such an achieve¬ 
ment? Only the 

Northzvestern Mutual 

of Milwaukee 


Cornelius A. Craig 
W. Ridley Wills 
Thos. J. Tyne 2nd Vice 
Newton H. White 
E. B. Craig 
C. Runcie Clements 
Walter S. Bearden, Jr. 
R. E. Fort, M. D. 


President 
Vice-President 
Prest. & Gen. Counsel 
3rd Vice-President 
4th Vice-President 
Secy. & Treas. 
Asst. Secy. & Treas. 
Medical Director 


The National Life and 
Accident Insurance Co. 

Nashville, Tenn. 


P. T. THROOP, General Agent 

Life & Casualty Building 
Nashville, Tenn. 


Capital $300,000.00 


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Depository of the 

United States 

First 

National Bank 

Memphis, Tenn. 

Capital .... $500,000 
Surplus .... 650,000 

J. A. Omberg, President 

P. S. Smithwick, Vice-President 

C. F. Farnsworth, Vice-President 

C. Q. Harris, Cashier 

C. H. Craig, Ass’t Cashier 

L. C. Humes, Ass’t Cashier 


O-Ban 

Hair Preparations 

Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer . 50c 

Q-Ban Hair Tonic 50c and #1.00 

Q-Ban Hair Liquid Shampoo . 50c 

Q-Ban Hair Depilatory . . 75c 

Q-Ban Hair Toilet and Shampoo 

Soap . 25c 

Nationally Advertised 
Preparations 

Sold by all Druggists 

Hessig-Ellis Drug Co. 

Manufacturers 

Memphis, Tennessee 



46th Year of 
Uninterrupted Success 

Time is the test of oaks and institutions. 

An undisturbed record of well-nigh half a century 
of successful business through all financial weathers 
must commend itself to all careful people. 

Cautious depositors look well to the enduring age 
and successful administration of the bank they do busi¬ 
ness with. 

The Directors and Officers of this Bank hold their 
present successful position, not from favoritism, but 
through years of hard work and persistent endeavor. 

We solicit your business. Three per cent paid on 
Savings Accounts. 

Union & Planters Bank 
& Trust Company 

Established 1869 

Capital #1,400,000.00. Memphis,Tenn. 
OFFICERS 

Frank F. Hill, President 

J. R. Pepper, V.-Pres. and Chm. Board Directors 
Gilmer Winston, Vice-President 

Noland Fontaine, Vice-President 

R. S. Polk, Cashier 

Eldridge Armistead, Assistant Cashier 

Sam Holloway, Attorney and Trust Officer 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

S. R. Leatherman J. M. McCormack 

H. T. WlNKELMAN 


Compliments of 

North Memphis 
Savings Bank 


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The Housekeeper’s Friend 
The Slogan of Health and Hygiene 
Phoenix, the Ideal Shortening 
For All Cooking 

To the Housekeepers of the Federation: 

Many things have been done to benefit man in 
his work, but comparatively few for women. One 
of the greatest boons however, that housekeepers 
—wives and mothers—know today, is PHOENIX, 
THE IDEAL SHORTENING AND GANDER 
BRAND SALAD OIL, put out by the Phoenix 
Cotton Oil Co. Through its use in the homes, 
women have learned that it is a matter of health as well as economy to use 
these products. Purely vegetable in nature, they do not create stomach 
troubles in even the most delicate stomachs. Indigestion is a thing unknown 
in households where PHOENIX, THE IDEAL SHORTENING is used in 
cooking, and GANDER BRAND SALAD OIL, in 
Salads and Mayonnaise. There IS ABSOLUTELY 
NOTHING JUST AS GOOD. Smoky grease, burned 
food, ruined cooking utensils, unsanitary kitchens, to 
say nothing of ill health, all become a thing of the past 
while using these products, your salads and pastry of 
all kinds, including the most delicious cakes, will be an 
added pleasure to your table. Your children may 
readily partake of them, for they are HEALTHY for 
even the wee ones. Housekeepers of the Federation, 
when next you order, be sure to include in your list for 
the week, or month, as the case may be, PHOENIX, 

THE IDEAL SHORTENING, AND GANDER 
BRAND SALAD OIL. You will welcome them both 


in your homes, and will never again be without them, salads and mayonnaise 




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Made in Memphis by 

Phoenix Cotton Oil Co. 

Nothing “Just As Good” 


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Advertising can serve no worthier purpose 

than to make known the integrity and superior 
quality of National Casket Company productions 



WE SELL ONLY THROUGH FUNERAL DIRECTORS 


National Casket Company 


NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 


ALBANY, N. Y. 
ALLEGHENY, PA. 
BALTIMORE, MD 
BOSTON, MASS. 
BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
BUFFALO, N. Y. 
CHICAGO, ILL. 


BRANCHES 

EAST CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 
HARLEM, N. Y. 
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 
LOUISVILLE, KY. 
NASHVILLE, TENN. 

NEW HAVEN, CONN. 

NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. 


ONEIDA, N. Y. 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
PITTSBURG, PA. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
SCRANTON, PA. 
SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 


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INDEX 


Abandonment Law, The.167 

Agricultural and Industrial Section.283 

Aims of the Art Department.141 

American-French Dry Cleaning Co.299 

Anderson, Mrs. Jas. A.227 

Arnstein, Mrs. M. B.149 

Ashe, Miss Cora Henry.Ill 

Barrow, Kate Trader .127 

Bates, Mrs. F. L.209 

Baxter, Mrs. Geo. White .195 

Blackwood Tire Co.307 

Bolling-Musser School of Music.255 

Bond, Mrs. Helen M.223 

Booker, Miss Susie T.137 

Browne, Mrs. Joseph D.117 

Buchanan Bros .307 

Buford College for Young Women .255 

Buford, Mrs. Elbridge Gerry.105 

Bureau of Information, The .115 

Campbell, Mrs. S. S.221 

Carothers, Mrs. Charles G.207 

Chattanooga Woman’s Club.247 

Civic Work in Tennessee.109 

Civil Service Reform . 81 

Clinchfield Portland Cement Co.291 

Conner, Mrs. Ellen W. 97 

Conser, Mrs. E. S.259 

Conservation Department .145 

Conway, Clara .267 

Day, Mrs. Thos.203 

Dedication . 5 

DeLoach, Mrs. A. B.207 

Denney, Mrs. Geo. W. 11 

Department of Literature .123 

Dodson, Mrs. Albert Russell .227 

Dudley, Mrs. Guilford . 65 

Exclusive Marinello Shop .307 

Extension Department .119 

Faehrman, Mrs. Frank.139 

Falls, Mrs. J. Napoleon . 69 

Fell, Mrs. Anna E.157 

First National Bank.311 

Flautt, Mrs. Jno. 0.151 

Flower Shop, The .287 

Forrest Chapter, Nathan Bedford .219 

Frankenstein & Bernatsky .301 

French Method Co.301 

Gardner, Mary Lilly .269 

Gartly-Ramsay Hospital .257 

Gaston, Mrs. Jno.253 

Gaston Park.281 

Gates, Mrs. Wm. Beverly.205 

Girls’ Friendly Society .229 

Good Shepherd Home, The .233 

Goodwyn Institute.251 

Gray, Mrs. B. T.225 

Henry, Miss Ida 0.169 

Hessig-Ellis Drug Co.311 

Higbee, Jennie M.265 

Hill, Mrs. Napoleon .135 

Home Economics .101 

Home for Incurables . 83 

Hood, Mrs. Sara Henry.227 

Horton, Mrs. W. H.273 

How to Build Up Rural Communities.171 

Howard, Mrs. Mary A. Giles . 19 

Hume, Mrs. William.215 

Hylen, Otto Co.299 

Improving Health Conditions. 95 

Industrial Conditions . 81 

In Memoriam.261 

Introductory . 3 

Juvenile Courts .155 

Juvenile Court of Chattanooga .167 

Juvenile Court of Memphis .159 

Knoxville Lyceum and Art Museum.245 

Krauss, Mary Louise Baxter.279 

Lacey, Mrs. W. E.149 

Ladies’ Hermitage Association .181 

Lang, Mrs. Frank .203 

Lanier’s Merry Garden .297 

Last Day of School, The.179 

Latham, Mrs. F. S.169 

Lightburne, Katherine Larkin .277 

Low'rance, Mrs. C. J.223 

McCormack, Mrs. J. M. 75 

McCorry Chapter, Musidora C.219 

Majestic and Empire Theaters .303 

Mellen, Mrs. Geo. F.245 

Memphis Bread Co.305 




Memphis Consolidated Gas & Electric Co...303 

Memphis Methodist Hospital.257 

Memphis Steam Laundry.305 

Memphis Street Railway Co.293 

M. E. Publishing Co.299 

Mississippi Delta Planting Co.295 

Model Steam Laundry.307 

Moffatt, Lydia Landon .273 

Mountain School House, A.231 

Mountain Settlement Work . 51 

Muehler, Mrs. O. H.139 

Myers, Mrs. H. C.275 

Nashville Boys’ Clubs .167 

Nashville Council, Jewish Women .239 

National Casket Co.315 

National Life & Accident Insurance Co.309 

Nevils, Mrs. Jos. A.279 

Nineteenth Century Club.237 

North Memphis Savings Bank.311 

Old Men’s Home, The.249 

Orpheum .297 

Ossoli Circle .245 

Peabody Soda Room .287 

Pepsi-Cola Co.305 

Phillips & Buttorff Mfg. Co.309 

Phoenix Cotton Oil Co.313 

Pickett, Mrs. A. B.219 

Pioneer Women of Tennessee, The. 13 

Playground Association of Memphis.165 

Pledge of Federation. 7 

Porter Home and Leath Orphanage Asylum.251 

Powell, Mrs. T. K.217 

Prison Reform .153 

Public Health . 91 

Ramsey, Miss Alma Louise .137 

Reese, Mrs. Isaac. 49 

Reinholds, Miss Lena S.227 

Retrospectus, A . 9 

Riley, Miss Florence B.137 

Roster of Clubs.235 

St. Mary’s on the Mountain. 67 

Salon Circle .243 

Saunders-Blackburn Grocery Co.295 

Schulken, Mrs. Kathryn Kersh. 97 

Speers, Mrs. N. W.169 

Story Hour for Boys and Girls, The.251 

Swain’s Bijou Cremes.297 

Temple, Miss Mary Boyce.201 

Tenn-Cola Co.301 

Tennessee Branch King’s Daughters . 85 

Tennessee’s Congress of Mothers.161 

Tennessee Federation and Legislation. 77 

Tennessee Music Clubs and Musicians.129 

Tennessee State Fair.177 

Thomason, Mrs. Jno. B.187 

Thompson, Mrs. A. N.169 

Throop, P. T. & Co.309 

Title Page . 1 

Tobev, Mrs. E. T.275 

Toof, Mrs. S. C.263 

Toof, S. C. & Co.287 

Traveling Libraries .121 

Tribute to the Press, A .243 

Twenty Years of the Tennessee Federation. 21 

Tyson, Mrs. Laurence D. 71 

Union & Planters Bank & Trust Co.311 

United Daughters of the Confederacy.211 

United States Daughters of 1812.197 

VanHorn, Mrs. Carrie B.149 

Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co.297 

Visiting Nurses’ Association .163 

Wade, Miss Belle Somers.137 

Walker, Mrs. Richard Gordon .89 

Ward-Belmont School .255 

Warner’s Drugs .299 

What Club Women Have Done for Public 

Schools .113 

What Women Have Done for Health in 

Tennessee . 99 

Wilson, Mrs. B. F.185 

Woman and Her Kitchen.289 

Woman’s Club of Jackson.243 

W. C. T. U. in Tennessee .241 

Women Artists of Tennessee .143 

Women Writers of Tennessee.125 

Worden, Mrs. Marie Greenwood.139 

Work in Tennessee by D. A. R.189 

Wright, Edith Bennett.271 

Y. W. C. A., Memphis. 285 
































































































































































































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